AustLit

'Leaf is an extraordinary achievement of ecopoetic art. These poems, clustered into 5 sections, are in startling and intimate dialogue with things that grow, challenging the very fundamentals of perception and of language itself.

'Elvey’s delicate and innovative work embodies what it might actually mean to deconstruct the opposition between culture and nature, to hear both the voice of the human poet and the breathing, rustling world of bark and leaf, root and flower.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Applying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition.

'By way of readings of selected biblical texts, this book suggests that an ecological feminist aesthetic, bringing present situation and biblical text into conversation through engagement with activism and literature, principally poetry, is helpful in decolonizing ethics. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.