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Anne Elvey is a researcher and poet with an interest in ecological hermeneutics, ecopoetics and biblical studies.

• Submissions are now open from 15 March to 1 May

  By anneelvey on March 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As students across Australia rally in support of climate change action, we open our call for poetry submissions for the August 2019 issue of Plumwood Mountain journal ‘Intersecting Energies: Location, Gender and Climate’ edited by Anne Elvey. Please read the… Read More ›

• Earth@Peace and Just Art: An Evening of Art, Music and Poetry on ANZAC Eve

  By anneelvey on March 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Coming up on ANZAC Eve, Wednesday 24 April 2019, the Earth@Peace project teams up with MAPW (Medical Association for the Prevention of War) for an evening of art, music and poetry. This is part of a conference to explore the… Read More ›

• On the destruction of trees

  By anneelvey on February 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  John Kinsella posted today this poem of sadness and anger at the destruction of trees on the Toodyay-Perth road: http://poetsvegananarchistpacifist.blogspot.com/ ‘we do not own the growth’ John says

• Plumwood Mountain Vol 6 No 1: The Everywhere of Things is live!

  By anneelvey on January 31, 2019 • ( 1 )

  Thanks to the brilliant Jill Jones, our guest poetry editor for our February 2019, The Everywhere of Things, is published, with commissioned poems from Alison Whittaker, Elena Gomez, Janet Jiahui Wu, Mindy Gill, and Shastra Deo, and lots more from… Read More ›

• AP-NAHR Ecopoetry Residency 2019

  By anneelvey on December 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Again in 2019 Australian Poetry and NAHR Nature Art Habitat Residency are partnering to offer an Ecopoetry residency in Sottochiesa, Val Taleggio between 30 May-25 June 2019. The theme this year is ‘grasses’. Full details of the residency can be found here…. Read More ›

• Inspiration and Challenge

  By anneelvey on November 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, I am inspired to see young people across the country striking for climate as part of the School Strike for Climate action. Just yesterday news came that the Adani corporation is going to self fund its mega coal mine… Read More ›

• Remembering Judith Rodriguez (1936–2018)

  By anneelvey on November 23, 2018 • ( 3 )

  The sad news came in this morning that wonderful poet, mentor and friend to many,  feminist, champion of human rights and Earth care, Judith Rodriguez has died. To honour her memory, Plumwood Mountain is reposting two poems published here, the… Read More ›

• Not long ago we felt the reassurance of a Marri tree

  By anneelvey on November 14, 2018 • ( 1 )

  John Kinsella performs poetry as activism beside slaughtered trees of the Brixton Street Wetland as bulldozer drivers continue their work behind him. And a poem from James who camped in the wetland not long before its devastation. And this also… Read More ›

• Remembering as Connecting in a Wider Earth Community

  By anneelvey on November 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Yesterday, I was privileged to offer the opening reflection at a Remembrance Day event, ‘A World at Peace with Itself’, which was a forerunner to a conference next April 23 and 24, 2019, Earth@Peace, the purpose of which is –… Read More ›

• Climate Guardians feature poems from hope for whole

  By anneelvey on November 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  At the Biennale of Australian Art in Ballarat, Climate Guardians featured poems by Ann Vickery, Anne Casey and Helen Moore from the ebook hope for whole: poets speak up to Adani. You can read more about the performance that took… Read More ›