The Earth@Peace project is coming to its climax with the launch of our second publication – a splendid book that we hope will reach a wide audience: Cloud Climbers Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace. This book will be launched face-to-face and online on Tuesday 28 September 2021 6:30–7.30pm.
The book carries a timely and powerful message which speaks to different audiences. We are launching the book at Readings in Lygon Street, Carlton. If you live in Melbourne, we would love you to join us. Alternatively, everyone, whether they live in Melbourne, interstate or overseas, can join us online.
We promise you an enjoyable and inspiring occasion. Emceeing the event will the editor of the book Dr Anne Elvey. Also present will be peace artist William Kelly, several poets and other contributors. We will begin with refreshments and informal conversation at 6.30 pm before the more formal part of the evening.
Two distinguished women will officially launch the book: Moira Rayner, who has over many years made an invaluable contribution to the public conversation, and Angela Costi, author of five widely acclaimed poetry collections.
REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL. Below are two links: one for attendance in person, and the other for online attendance (via Zoom). You must choose one or the other.
To attend in person register here
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The publisher Palaver has generously made 50 copies of the book available to us at the heavily discounted price of $22 per copy. ONLY 13 COPIES LEFT. If you wish to order the book, please fill in the attached form.
Cloud Climbers
Edited by Anne Elvey
Cloud Climbers: Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace. Colonial invasion, nuclear weapons, pandemics and the entanglements of war with fossil fuel extraction and climate change, challenge our capacities to act with hope for an ecologically just and peaceful future. Framed around artwork by William Kelly and Benjamin McKeown and ekphrastic poetry by acclaimed writers Bella Li, Susan Fealy, Alex Skovron and Andy Jackson, this book reflects the conviction that the arts, literature, activism and scholarship can together contribute to the kinds of cultural shift requisite for a peace that flows from and extends to human relations with the natural world. As well as artists and poets, the contributors include activists, Indigenous, ecological, feminist, legal, theological and religious scholars.
Editor Anne Elvey is a poet and scholar whose work includes On arrivals of breath (Poetica Christi 2019), White on White (Cordite Books 2018), Kin (FIP 2014), shortlisted in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards 2015, and Obligations of Voice (Recent Work Press 2021). Anne is editor of hope for whole: poets speak up to Adani. Her most recent scholarly book is Reading the Magnificat in Australia: Unsettling Engagements (Sheffield Phoenix 2020).
Contributors
Joseph Camilleri, Jim Crosthwaite, Wanda Deifelt, Marie Dennis, Garry Worete Deverell, Anne Elvey, Susan Fealy, Deborah Guess, Deborah Hart, Jione Havea, Andy Jackson, Jason Kelly, William Kelly, Jonathan Keren-Black, Bella Li, Rose Lucas, Mónica A. Maher, Freya Mathews, Benjamin McKeown, Ruth Mitchell, Mick Pope, Dianne Rayson, Omar Sakr, Anna Sakurai, Craig Santos Perez, Alex Skovron, Deborah Storie, Kanchana Weerakoon, Asmi Wood.
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