30/09/2025
All the plants I have half-grown by Linden K McMahon (2024)
From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, carefully pulling us through the magic of q***r kin-making and towards a sense of reciprocity and belonging.
Linden K McMahon is a writer, performer, and arts & nature connection facilitator - they write about human connections with ecologies, utopian dreams, belonging, and q***r joy.
"I have rarely read poems that try so honestly to enter into relationship with the non-human: plants, birds, fungi, land. McMahon's poems are acts of connection, committed to imagining better. 'The words link [us] to the lives that swirl around us', knowing this work is tricksy and incomplete and doing it anyway. The poems are full of play and song and mourning: a mourning that is active, that goes out to plant and grow." - Miriam Nash
"These poems have good rich soil under their fingernails. Speak to an intimate relationship with ecology, Linden McMahon is singing through the hard and rewarding work of growing a world of kinship, of reciprocity. With deep love and furious heartbreak, the lyrics here map out ways of knowing the world and each other that offer precious hope. There's wide-eyed wonder here, but earthly knowledge too. The writing refuses cynicism and embraces a bodily experience of reality. Like all the best gardens, this pamphlet is full of flowers and thorns, full of rich scents and tangled roots, and is always growing towards the sun." - Harry Josephine Giles
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