From Solstice towards Christmas 2023
On Bunurong Country Given to gladness, flesh-knitted bone long-birthed in the bless of things, meaning matter, the haloed stuff of what is bit by bit becoming, as photons stretch cells, as if light were air inflating, con- tracting the lungs, puffed up, not knowing the longest day’s rites of Country, tilted toward sun Here…
Reading with Earth – coming out in paperback
Reading with Earth is coming out in paperback in March 2024. This book was the winner of the inaugural ANZATS book prize for an established scholar. The paperback can be ordered here. Below is a video I made about the book, for a panel on the book series Explorations in Theology, Gender and Ecology at…
Racism and solidarity
Wiradjuri man and journalist Stan Grant’s speech at the end of Q&A on Monday night was deeply, deeply moving, a continuation of his truth-telling and grace as commentator and host. That his experience of racism for being an Indigenous person in the public eye is not singular but rather the norm for so many Aboriginal…
Voice, Treaty, Truth – 2023
As the year unfolds toward the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, I’d like to share some resources that I have found helpful. A trawloolway man from northern lutruwita (Tasmania), Rev Canon Dr Garry Deverell gives a very helpful lecture on the Uluru Statement and the design of the Voice. Professor Anne Pattel-Gray, a descendant…
Double Launch
I am delighted and honoured to be joining Dr Kerrie Handasyde for a double launch featuring Professor Katharine Massam launching Kerrie’s God in the Landscape: Studies in the Literary History of Australian Protestant Dissent and Professor Vicky Balabanski launching my recently published Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics.
Online Launch of Leaf at Liquid Amber Ecopoetics Zoom
My new poetry collection Leaf published by the exciting Liquid Amber Press is almost out in the world and will be launched online by Shari Kocher at the Liquid Amber Zoom event on Thursday 22 September 2022, from 7.30pm. The launch is part of an Ecopoetics feature focusing on plant poetics with readings from Peter…
Launch of Cloud Climbers
The launch of Cloud Climbers: Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace is fast approaching: online on Tuesday 28 September 2021, 6.30pm – 8.00pm. Bookings essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/cloud-climbers-book-launch-zoom-stream-tickets-165699061353
The unease of a review
While cleaning up my inbox, I noticed that the most recent issue of Feminist Theology carries a review of Reading the Magnificat in Australia: Unsettling Engagements. Very grateful to have a review from Lisa Isherwood that recognises the unsettled and unsettling nature of the work. A bit uneasy about one comment that seems counter to…
Recent Work Reading 13 September 2021 – online
I hope all of you who are in lockdown in the eastern states are doing ok. Jennifer Compton and I were scheduled to read in person in Canberra in June this year, from our new poetry collections out from Recent Work Press, but one of the earlier Melbourne lockdowns put that on hold until September.…
Introducing sun glint drift
sun glint drift is the website of Anne Elvey Of English, Irish and Scottish settler descent, I live and work on Boonwurrung Country (alternatively spelt Boon Wurrung or Bunurong Country) in what is also known as Seaford, Victoria. I pay my respects to the elders past, present and future and recognise their continuing relation to…
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