I Sing to the Greenhearts Amir Tag Elsir Mark’s journey

Mark’s journey

”   The Observer

artist and naturalist

Each poem bristles with life and longing

This makes for an elegiac collection but Granier’s elegies are not made of pieties

I Sing to the Greenhearts Amir Tag Elsir Mark’s journeyA collection haunted by ghosts of colonial history, Maggie Harriss I Sing to the Greenhearts challenges the dullness of pastoral with unbridled nature. Guyanas Greenheart tree appears in this collection as one of many plants with attitude, plants that know their history, plants bringing the wild in from the edges. In poems set in a thriving Welsh garden, such as My Banana thinks on Louise Bennetts Colonisation in Reverse, we find a world in which both