Plants Beyond Desire by Ayşegül Yıldırım Neetha Kunaratnam Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016

Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016

María Eloy-García

these poems operate in the spaces in between

strange with loss

Plants Beyond Desire by Ayşegül Yıldırım Neetha Kunaratnam Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016In Plants Beyond Desire Ayegl Yldrm shows that looking after plants actions she also prescribes for writing poems: watering, fertilising, weeding, providing shade or sunshine stimulates a predisposition to nurture, stirring the part of our psyche where love mixes with beauty, amidst the capitalist destruction of the planet. Plants Beyond Desire is green fingered, full of deft and delicate poems enthral to the rhizomatic world. Yldrm offers an original