Startling by Linda France Karen Leeder Language is important because it

Language is important because it is one of the ways we can mend those cracks

’” —James Brook

 The Anatomical Venus imagines the lives of women sketched in asylum notes and pictures others shut inside cabinets of curiosity

and the balm of the silence it rides upon

Startling by Linda France Karen Leeder Language is important because itLinda Frances tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass extinction. Here, beginnings end and endings begin, as we leap across time and space and encounter the inter connected nature of emergency. France harnesses the power of innate ecological awareness, refreshing both individual and collective imaginations in order to create a lasting synergy between nature and culture. Grounded in