Plumwood Mountain Volume 7 Number 1

Editorial: Plant Poetics

John Charles Ryan

 

Ceremony of Love

Jaime Luis Huenún

Translated by Cynthia Steele

 Waraburra and Wattle

Anita Patel

 Rose Interior

Tracy Ryan

Translation of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

 [Touching each other they think themselves old]

Julia Anastasia Pelosi-Thorpe

Translation of a poem by Maria Borio
One to a Vase

Peter Ramm

 Poetry of a Bottlebrush

E A Gleeson

 Niche

Ron Wilkins

 Wisteria

Marybeth Holleman
Idiot fruit

Carl Walsh

 Gimlet

Glen Phillips

 Silky Oak

Vanessa Page

 Black Boys

Brenda Saunders
Le deuil, … or what the Spinifex tells Orpheus

Michelle Cahill

 Floral Organs (A history of fire)

Sophie Finlay

 restless

Jane Gibian

 Three songs to rain, translated by a kōwhai tree

Susan Wardell
Utterance

Basma Kavanagh

 Signals in the Wild

Magdalena Ball

 Quaking Aspens, Utah

Penelope Layland

 The Trees

Stuart Cooke
The spin of leaves

Kristen Lang

 Theories of Crown Shyness

Debbie Lim 

 Orchidean Footholds

Ben Walter

 Banksia serrata

Vanessa Page
God’s Prophet

Catherine Wright

 Iwerre Atherre/Two Roads

Barry McDonald

 Plant Riddle #3

Carolyn Masel

 West-East

Michael Leach
Selfheal

Veronica Fibisan

 Herb-Robert

Tracy Ryan

 Call me Rose Dorothea. I prefer the word / for the thing to the thing itself.

Stuart Barnes

 feral green marketing

Mark Roberts
not all invasions

Magdalena Ball

 summer time

Tim Heffernan

 Buttercups

Tracy Ryan

 Given Trees Their Other Side of Nature

Peter Larkin
Scarlet Runner Rhapsody Villanelle [a variation]

John Kinsella

 

Articles and Essays

Scholarly

Warwick Mules, ‘Nobody’s Voice: to hear what is unheard as a pressing task for poetics today‘

John Charles Ryan, ‘Wild Yam Dreaming: The Phytopoetics of Emily Kame Kngwarreye‘

Creative

Pantea Armanfar, ‘Life of a Sundew or Sundew of a Life’.

All essays published in this issue have been peer reviewed. We are grateful to the anonymous peer reviewers.

Book Review

John Charles Ryan reviews The Bones of My Grandfather by Esthela Calderón

General Book Reviews

Click on the book reviews link (just above) for a list of reviews published in March 2020. Earlier reviews appear beneath the current ones, listed by month of publication.

© Copyright of individual poems, art works, articles, essays and reviews remains with the contributors 2020.

For inquiries concerning reuse of materials reproduced in Plumwood Mountain, email info.plumwoodmountain@gmail.com

 

 

Plumwood Mountain journal gratefully acknowledges the support of donors.

 

Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics

ISSN 2203-4404

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