In past weeks as countries across the world negotiate the COVID-19 pandemic in a multitude of ways, the ‘pause’ many of us inhabit has also allowed for further destruction, and of note just in October 2020 in the UK and… Read More ›
Poetry
‘Writing in the Pause: Call for Work’, edited by Jonathan Skinner
Submissions for Volume 7 Number 2 are open between 26 May and 1 July 2020. I am delighted to announce Jonathan Skinner as the guest editor for this issue on the theme ‘Writing in the Pause’. ‘What in this disruption… Read More ›
Threatened Treasures Project
Update: Mandy Langlois advises that submissions are open until 30 June 2020, but check the website for details. A new project Threatened Treasures is calling for submissions. They are aiming to create ‘an anthology of poems for young people to… Read More ›
Intersecting Energies is live
Plumwood Mountain Volume 6 Number 2 (August 2019) is now live on the theme, ‘Intersecting Energies: Location, Gender, Climate’, with new work from Emily Munro-Harrison, Ryan Prehn, Monica Jasmine Karo, Magan Magan, Lian Low, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Anne Casey,… Read More ›
Submissions are now open from 15 March to 1 May
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 ›
Plumwood Mountain Vol 6 No 1: The Everywhere of Things is live!
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 ›
Inspiration and Challenge
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
