Other Wild by Emily Zobel Marshall Matthew Sweeney about wood grain

about wood grain

’ So begins Kelly Michels’ sometimes shocking debut as the author remembers observing her mother

these are poems that pay tribute to all the places that house the stories we treasure

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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

Other Wild by Emily Zobel Marshall Matthew Sweeney about wood grainPublished 2nd October 2025. These tender, lyrical poems learn from the natural world, through immersion and observation. Finding new ways to reflect, adapt and inhabit, they celebrate the ways our beings and bodies are inextricably entangled with the ever changing landscapes and heartscapes of woods, rivers, moors and towering mountains. They reflect too on family pasts as a mixed race family in rural Wales, and on family presents of ever changing