‘Leaf’ launched – ecopoetic gala

‘Leaf’ – weaving an entrancing course within a human-flora arc

On 22 September, Anne Elvey’s wonderful new collection Leaf was launched by Shari Kocher.

Leaf is an extraordinary achievement of ecopoetic art. Anne’s poems are in startling and intimate dialogue with things that grow, challenging the very fundamentals of perception and of language itself. Her delicate and innovative work embodies what it might actually mean to deconstruct the opposition between culture and nature, allowing us to hear both the voice of the human poet and the breathing, rustling world of bark and leaf, root and flower.

Liquid Amber are absolutely thrilled to be bringing this beautiful book to you. Thanks again to Sharon Monagle for the use of her gorgeous image and also to Dave Hughes for his wonderful design which makes this book such a joy to hold and to read.

This was such a special poetry event – an international eco-poetry gala – a feast for both practicing poets and those of us listening, reading and thinking about poetry and the natural world. Enjoy watching the launch and readings.

More about our guests:

“Peter Larkin is one of the most important poets writing today” (Emma Jane Mason, 2021). A symposium on his work was held at Warwick U (UK) in 2018 and the proceedings featured in Journal of British & Irish innovative Poetry

John Charles Ryan is a writer of poetry, non-fiction and research with an interest in plants, fungi, lichens and human-nature relationships. His recent work includes the poetry collection Seeing Trees: A Poetic Arboretum (with G. Phillips) and the prose anthology The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (with P. Vieira and M. Gagliano).

Shari Kocher is the author of Foxstruck and Other Collisions (Puncher & Wattmann, 2021) which was Highly Commended for the NSW Premier’s Literature Awards (Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2022), and The Non-Sequitur of Snow (Puncher & Wattmann 2015), which was Highly Commended in the 2015 Anne Elder Awards (Australia). www.sharikocher.com

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