Author Description

In Plants Beyond Desire Ayşegül Yıldırım shows that looking after plants - actions she also prescribes for writing poems: "watering, fertilising, weeding, providing shade or sunshine" - stimulates a predisposition to nurture, stirring the part of our psyche where love mixes with beauty. Plants Beyond Desire is green fingered, full of deft and delicate poems enthral to the floral world. Yıldırım offers an original and enticing style of eco-poetry.