Weeds and Wild Flowers again

Alice Oswald's new book with Jessica Greenman is a series of imaginings of plants as people. Because she's a gardener with long experience of weeds and wild flowers, many of these plants are intrusive, a nuisance, an aberration from the strict economy of gardening. The same is the case with many of the plant poems here: the people they imagine are often eccentric failures, people who have not succeeded in life and lead embittered, marginal existences. The plants on Greenman's etchings do not observe any decorum either, they sprawl untidily across the page in a natural abundance.