Jenny Mitchell — A Man in Love with Plants
Poetry Unbound
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Paudrigo Tumma reads A Man in Love with Plants by Jenny Mitchell. It's a poem that recalls the murder of an uncle and his love of plants. Neither the brutality nor the beauty are diminished by being put alongside each other. To do this in this powerful way I think is a reclamation of the public power of tender language.
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