If you would like to review a book

Please familiarise yourself with our book review guidelines below. You can then email us at info.plumwoodmountain@gmail.com and include which book you would like to review, a short bio (max. 100 words), as well as a current postal address. If the work is not what one would generally consider ‘ecopoetic’, feel free to include a short note on how you’d like to approach the review from an ecocritical perspective. In the subject of the email, please include: ‘Book Review: [Book Title]_[Your name]

Book review guidelines

Book reviews should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words. Longer reviews of up to 2,500 words are encouraged if they engage substantially with the work under review. Please discuss this with the reviews editor.
Reviews should be formatted simply, without special headings, in Times New Roman 12pt font with 1.5 spacing.
Please give pages numbers for all quotations from the book under review. Quotations should be given as they appear in the book. Only use italics if they are used in the book itself.
Please supply references for all other books and articles to which you refer in your review in MLA citation style.
Reviews should err on the side of generosity to the author, but should not be hagiographic or read as a publisher’s blurb. Well-supported, constructive criticism in a formal or academic writing style, that focuses on craft and poetics is welcome.
Send reviews as docx, doc or rtf files by email to the reviews editor.
Please allow time for the Plumwood Mountain Journal team to respond to your submission and for the editorial process to proceed.

Other notes

The following is a short note on some ideas you may wish to keep in mind when reviewing books for Plumwood Mountain Journal, as a journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics.

Even if the work you are reviewing is not in your opinion ecopoetry, ecopoetic principles can be brought to your review of the work.

Ecopoetry is more than ‘landscape poetry’ or ‘nature writing’. In the making (poiesis) that is poetry, ecopoetry engages with ecological perspectives. Questions such as what it means to be human in a more-than-human world, how we might attend to the other than human in our writing and reading, and what it means to write the other, or to write with the other, are invited for considerations.