These poems are sensuous, disciplined, earthy and deeply knowledgeable - a knowledge worn close to the skin. Musical and exceptionally eloquent, they glow. The journey of Reading the Flowers brought me almost unimaginably close to the wonders conveyed: "As near to kin as you'll ever be" ('Through the Turnstile Gate'). Moniza Alvi Reading the Flowers began during Linda France's 2010-11 Leverhulme Residency at Moorbank, Newcastle University's...
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