Re-imagining grief in the pandemic Anthropocene: Willo Drummond reviews ‘Leaf’ by Anne Elvey

by Admin on May 17, 2023May 18, 2023

Leaf is Elvey’s sixth full length poetry collection and takes seriously John Charles Ryan’s provocation ‘how might we imagine plants?’, for it is this work of empathic imagining, and decentring of the human, that will offer us any chance of a future in the current age of species collapse and climate catastrophe.

A sense of the numinous: Dr Anne Elvey launches ‘This Shuttered Eye’ by Rose Lucas

by Admin on December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

Never heavy, Rose Lucas’s voice is measured, paced – on the page and in the ear – with the rhythms of heartbeat or walking. The ‘murk’ of human obsessions and cruelty are suggested subtly, but in such a way that her poetics affirms a kind of grace. Despite its sometime pious or religious overtones, in Lucas’s poetry ‘grace’ itself is a word that the poet risks effectively.

A significant vision: Angela Costi’s speech at the launch of ‘Cloud Climbers – Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace’ edited by Dr Anne Elvey

by Admin on October 27, 2021October 27, 2021

This is a book with a significant vision. It brings renowned thinkers into a communal space, like a galvanising symposium or an inspiring protest. Each thinker, by activating their various practices through art, poetry, speeches and essays, moves us towards a just and ecologically sustainable, peaceful existence.