As we barrel roll into our 5th week at the fabulous Yorkshire Stingo Hotel, we are most delighted to welcome the highly respected and awesome Anne Elvey as our feature poet. Anne is a brilliant wordsmith, such dedication to craft and to truth alongside beauty. We feel quite lucky indeed.
And because we like you too, there will be open mic. Sign up on the day (chalkboard goes up around 1.30pm). Come read, listen, drink and eat. The food is reasonably priced and bloody good. Entry is free but donations are greatly appreciated to help us pay our poets - just slip your notes or coins into Helmut the Helmet. Anne will also have books for sale on the day for purchase.
BIO
Anne Elvey is a poet, editor and researcher, living on unceded Bunurong Country. Her recent poetry collections are Intents (Liquid Amber Press, April 2025), Leaf (Liquid Amber Press, 2022), shortlisted in the 2023 ASLE-UKI Book Prize for the best work of creative writing with an ecological theme, and Obligations of voice (Recent Work Press, 2021). Kin (Five Islands Press, 2014) was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2015. Anne was international winner of the Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Award 2015. She is co-author of Intatto/Intact (La Vita Felice, 2017), an Italian-English collection of ecopoetry with Massimo D’Arcangelo and Helen Moore, and translators Francesca Cosi, Alessandra Repossi and Todd Protnowitz.
She was inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal until 2020. Her scholarly book Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2022) was winner of the inaugural ANZATS Book Prize for an Established Scholar. Behind an unkempt garden, home to wattlebirds, brushtail and ringtail possums, occasionally tawny frogmouths and bats, with visiting bees, dragonflies, little ravens and rainbow lorikeets, among others, she lives near Port Phillip Bay in Seaford, Victoria, with her partner Greg Price.
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