More Than Weeds
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More Than Weeds

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More Than Weeds

About this book

More Than Weeds, the debut poetry collection by L. Kiew, explores the language of migration and how it is used in relation to plant and animal species, as well as peoples. These knowledgeable and verdant poems draw deeply on botanical and ecological detail and reveal secret histories thriving in the gaps between definitions; here are precious seedlings, unforced flowers, tongues of leaves, tangled roots and rhizomes.

With roots in decolonialising botany and horticulture movements, and influenced by the impact of the climate crisis and regenerative gardening practices, Kiew's poetry is alive and thronging with the interconnected nature of things – and the formative forces of nurture, family, food, refuge and love. Human and plant voices speak for themselves of experiences of belonging and displacement, as well as encounters with violence. These vivid poems that ask us to scrutinise what is really contained or constrained by demarcations – whether those of weed or wildflower, or of borders and hostile environments.

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Information

Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781913437640
eBook ISBN
9781913437657
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Psithurism
  6. Tulips
  7. Knotweed
  8. Underground each word
  9. Ah Kong held our family together
  10. Forest text
  11. Ficus
  12. Afterlife
  13. Corydalis lutea
  14. Splits and rasps
  15. When we consider everything that grew
  16. Lassaba
  17. Seated lady x Ivy-leafed toadflax (x Aubrey Beardsley)
  18. Red rearranged
  19. Of rust, smut and mould
  20. Impatiens glandulifera
  21. Rhubarb
  22. Migrant
  23. Swallow
  24. Learning to be mixi
  25. Self-portrait as Bartlett pear
  26. Gombak
  27. Bakkwa
  28. Chicken
  29. Of the shortest day
  30. Rabbits
  31. Kuih Kapit
  32. Testimony against Robert Fortune and his ilk
  33. How the tree feels
  34. Rhododendron
  35. Open gardens
  36. Buddleja davidii
  37. Rust Square
  38. We’ve taken Rosa
  39. Wisteria
  40. On being told by police
  41. In search of
  42. You who treat desire like an app on your phone
  43. Boscage
  44. Postcards
  45. Planatus x hispanica
  46. She’s against thieving
  47. When the tattooist says I sat like a rock all day, I think
  48. Karwinski’s fleabane
  49. If I’d gathered enough or held you
  50. Francesca
  51. Phyllotaxis
  52. Do not trust
  53. Vandals
  54. St Anthony’s fire
  55. When I said I wanted to be
  56. Geoxyle
  57. Robinia pseudoaccacia
  58. Voices I have not heard
  59. Intent
  60. Gleditsia tricanthos
  61. The more I tasted the more I understood
  62. Only in the interest of national security
  63. There’s always spontaneous combustion
  64. We remember when blood and love were just
  65. These trees were considered beautiful
  66. Today everything is on fire
  67. The conservator
  68. Weeds are wild
  69. To live here
  70. Seeding and sproutings
  71. Horticultural notes and numbers
  72. Acknowledgements
  73. About the author and this book