Linda Pilliere Knihy

Linda France's tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass extinction.

Reading the Flowers began during France's 2010-11 Leverhulme Residency at Moorbank, Newcastle University's Botanic Garden. Here nature and culture meet in poems looking at flowers cultivated and wild, trees in the garden and the rainforest, plants and creatures that live alongside them under the microscope of memory and imagination.