More Than Weeds by L. Kiew John Birtwhistle these sweet and funny poems

these sweet and funny poems tell of playful adventures

Capturing the chaotic rhythms of these young lives in vivid yet unsentimental prose

accretive whole

There are regrets

Taking her title from the idea that when a woman writes about her experience as a woman

More Than Weeds by L. Kiew John Birtwhistle these sweet and funny poemsMore Than Weeds, the debut poetry collection by L. Kiew, explores the language of migration and how it is used in relation to plant and animal species, as well as peoples. These knowledgeable and verdant poems draw deeply on botanical and ecological detail and reveal secret histories thriving in the gaps between definitions; here are precious seedlings, unforced flowers, tongues of leaves, tangled roots and rhizomes. With roots in decolonialising