Seedwork (On Breaking Open)

This is poetry that builds terrains rather than narratives, a vivid, queer, eco attuned practice that layers language like sediment and invites the reader into a living, relational field that spins out from the wheel of the year. With ritualistic precision and deft weaving of theory and lived experience into sensuous, grounded imagery, Jesse Hill has seeded work here that feels both intellectually bold and deeply embodied. These poems summon rather than describe, offering a porous, polytemporal space where landscape, care, and radical attentiveness meet.

- JLM Morton

From Samhain to Mabon, the Pagan wheel of the year spins alongside the precarity of our current moment in Seedwork. With a musical ear cupped to the wind, Jesse Hill's first collection operates an ecopoetics of great dignity and gestural tenderness. Asking who we are-seed or sower-these poems read as new whilst channeling back to ancient Druidic and Bardic practice. Seedwork is prayerful, incantatory, restlessly active and underpinned by healing and compassion. Selflessly, the song that is this book also takes the form of a plea for the planet at large.

- James Byrne