FrankTALK with Anne Elvey

Next date: Saturday, 14 June 2025 | 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM

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Join us at Frankston Library for an afternoon of poetry, in celebration of the release of Intents by Anne Elvey.

Published by Liquid Amber Press, Intents offers a collection of new work inviting you to pause and reflect.

Anne Elvey will be joined by fellow poets Anne M. Carson (emcee), Jen Compton, E. A. Gleeson, Angela Costi, and Rose Lucas, who will be reading a selection of both Anne's poetry and their own.

About the author:

Anne Elvey is a poet, editor and researcher living on unceded Bunurong Country. Her full length poetry collections are Intents (Liquid Amber Press, 2025), Leaf (Liquid Amber Press, 2022), shortlisted in the 2023 ASLE-UKI Book Prize for the best work of creative writing with an ecological theme, Obligations of voice (Recent Work Press, 2021), On arrivals of breath (Poetica Christi, 2019), White on white (Cordite Books, 2018) and Kin (Five Islands Press, 2014), shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2015. She was international winner of the Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Award 2015. Anne is co-author of Intatto/Intact (La Vita Felice, 2017), an Italian-English collection of ecopoetry with Massimo D’Arcangelo and Helen Moore. She was inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal until 2020. Behind an unkempt garden, home to wattlebirds, brushtail and ringtail possums, occasionally tawny frogmouths and bats, with visiting bees, dragonflies, little ravens and rainbow lorikeets, among others, she lives near Port Phillip Bay in Seaford, Victoria, with her partner Greg Price.

Delicate and attuned to the numinous in the everyday, Intents traces the vibrational and unsayable across exchanges human and more-than-human in our interconnected world. With the humility characteristic of Elvey’s work, these poems weave a moving ethics of care, a chapel of attention and interbeing utterly necessary for our times. – Willo Drummond