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 ›
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 ›
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
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›