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 ›
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Remembering Judith Rodriguez (1936–2018)
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
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
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
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 ›
Poetry submissions still open until 28 October 2018
“Of course, poems are also things, made by things, produced and distributed by other things. Words produce meaning, pattern, shape, sound, feeling. Poems are matter, words are shapes made of paper or screen, sounds made into air, or recorded. All… Read More ›
Climate Guardians to feature poems from hope for whole
Delighted that this coming Saturday afternoon 13 October 2018, Climate Guardians will be performing at the Biennale of Australian Art in Ballarat and will be including poems by Ann Vickery, Anne Casey and Helen Moore in their performance. These poems… Read More ›
Submissions are now open
What is your interest in things and their syntax? How might a poem discover their vibrance, movement, resonance, their turning? So, sound, narrate, list, complicate, fold and unfold the things of this world, in their over-thereness, in their beside-hereness, in… Read More ›
Plumwood Mountain Volume 5 Number 2 is now live
‘The sound of rain: a constant, pink noise that hurtles behind these poems. Like the elemental soundtrack to a Bill Viola film, water clattering on stone.’ So begins Bonny Cassidy’s editorial to the current issue of Plumwood Mountain journal. You… Read More ›
Good news
Plumwood Incorporated and Plumwood Mountain journal are delighted to announce that Copyright Agency Cultural Fund has awarded the journal funding for one year from July 2018 to June 2019 to enable us to commission new work, pay Australian based poetry… Read More ›
