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.