Swims Sylvia Plath considering past injustices as they

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

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

especially in verdant Britain

Peter Mills

this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations

Swims Sylvia Plath considering past injustices as theyA 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