Swims Sylvia Plath especially in verdant Britain

especially in verdant Britain

considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness

Elizabeth / Clausen

and analyzing works by Pierre Huyghe

It is a book of audacious botany and poetic vision which asks us to look at anew at our relationship with plants and celebrates their power to nourish the human spirit

Swims Sylvia Plath especially in verdant BritainA favourite book of Robin Silas (Makina Books), selected for our 2020 Rewind. Plunge into mountain lakes and drift along meandering rivers in Swims, the debut poetry collection by Elizabeth Jane Burnett! A long poem taking many forms, Swims begins and ends in Devon, moving across the waterways of England and Wales: from urban pond to open sea. The poet swims among fishermen on Grasmere, reimagines the body as bottle cap in the Channel, and clambers