Linda France's tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass extinction. Here, beginnings end and endings begin, as we leap across time and space and encounter the inter-connected nature of emergency. France harnesses the power of innate ecological awareness, refreshing both individual and collective imaginations in order to create a lasting synergy between nature and culture. Grounded in seasonal fieldwork and close observation, these poems call for a rewilding of the self as well as the landscape: a momentous task, that, as France demonstrates, can only be achieved through the radical act of tenderness.

Startling

Literature & Fiction

Linda France

Poetry

Faber&Faber

A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. This anthology charts the irrepressible growth and flowering of women's poetry in Britain and Ireland from the early 1970s to the 90s. Included are many distinctive female voices, no longer apologetic, but courageous, confident, and powerful voices of Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin, Freda Downie, Carol Ann Duffy, U.A. Fanthorpe, Rita Ann Higgins, Kathleen Jamie, Elizabeth Jennings, Jenny Joseph, Jackie Kay, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Ruth Padel, Ruth Pitter, Deborah Randall, Carol Rumens, E.J. Scovell, Anne Stevenson, and many others. ""Admirable in breadth and scope"" - Booklist.

Sixty Women Poets

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

The natural world its minutiae, its vastness, its beauties, mysteries and paradoxes and how the human individual is observes it, reacts to it, confronts it, yet is always part of it, are what makes this collection such absorbing and stimulating reading. Linda France observes and comments on plant, animal and insect life from every angle, sometimes from a deeply personal perspective, sometimes as an observer, sometimes in the voice of plants themselves. Family history, childhood memories and vivid descriptions of the wonders of nature from around the world are shot through with a scintillating lexicon of plant names so that every poem gleams with a unique light.

Reading the Flowers

Arc Publications

The Iron Press Book of Tree Poetry

JACOB POLLEY

S.J. Litherland

Robin Moss

Kitty Fitzgerald

Peter Bennet

Debjani Chatterjee

Iron Press

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