'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.
'Anne Elvey was recently shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award for one of her elegant, prayerful compositions, that hardly seem to be composed of words as we know them, and yet I suppose they must be. They lift up off of the page, they seem to linger in the air.' (Introduction)
'Anne Elvey was recently shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award for one of her elegant, prayerful compositions, that hardly seem to be composed of words as we know them, and yet I suppose they must be. They lift up off of the page, they seem to linger in the air.' (Introduction)
