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Nelson's latest collection represents a maturing of an eco-poetics which treats writing as environmental practice. In 'root-like speech' and 'lingual follicles' this is a meticulous poetry of enquiry into experience, whilst making language itself an experience. Full of rich encounters in a 'natural' world in which we 'use our words for trees' in a 'muddy stanza', Nelson asks 'in what language tree names rain'. Showing allegiances to the work of Harriet Tarlo, Maggie O'Sullivan and Geraldine Monk, one might find a quiet, central image at the heart of this collection in the mysterious figure of 'graphis [...] scripta' - the 'secret writing' lichen. - Scott Thurston These poems are lightful. Tree - chrysalis - human - pheasant - ivy - imprint voice with voice in auditory embodied enquirings of song. A wit(h)ness of (apple - sky - human - rainfall) forms letters and musics; a co-allowing of selves, offering a language of betweenness 'on the lichenous page'. stir this miracle into waking. - Maggie O'Sullivan

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