Anne Elvey lives on Boonwurrung Country in Seaford, Victoria. Author of On arrivals of breath (2019), White on White (2018), Kin (2014), and co-author of Intatto/Intact (with Massimo D’Arcangelo and Helen Moore, 2017), she was managing editor of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics from 2014 to 2020. She also curated the ebook hope for whole: Poets Speak up to Adani (2018). Obligations of voice is forthcoming from Recent Work Press in June 2021. Anne is an Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, and Honorary Research Associate, Trinity College Theological School, University of Divinity, Melbourne. Author of The Matter of the Text: Material Engagements between Luke and the Five Senses (2011), she is coeditor, with Keith Dyer and Deborah Guess, of Ecological Aspects of War: Engagements with Biblical Texts (2017). Her most recently scholarly work is Reading the Magnificat in Australia: Unsettling Engagements (Sheffield Phoenix Press 2020). She is currently working on a volume Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism for an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics to be published by Bloomsbury T&T Clark in 2022. Her writing on plants is inspired by Peter Larkin’s tree poetics.
The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence IS HERE!
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An online symposium that brings The Mind of Plants contributors together to share their reflections and various learnings with plants.
Stories, poetry and sound across a diversity of human languages and geographical landscapes. Come and join us!