More Than Weeds by L. Kiew John Birtwhistle Taking her title from the

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

‘I watch you sweat

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

real and fictional

Her poems belong to an urban world of cafés

More Than Weeds by L. Kiew John Birtwhistle Taking her title from theMore 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