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Anne Elvey
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Anne Elvey is a poet, editor and researcher, living on unceded Bunurong Country. Her full length poetry collections are 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.