Seedwork (On Breaking Open) by Jesse Hill Jonathan Cape ‘Bert’s poems make the reader

‘Bert’s poems make the reader aware of other worlds

We Animals Would Like a Word With You

thought collapsed into sensation

our pidgin

time and the tender paradoxes of mortality

Seedwork (On Breaking Open) by Jesse Hill Jonathan Cape ‘Bert’s poems make the readerSeedwork (On Breaking Open) by Jesse Hill is structured around the pagan Wheel of the Year, moving through its eight sabbats from Samhain to Mabon as both formal architecture and ecological philosophy. Each section carries a brief prose invocation of its corresponding season before yielding to poems that think through soil, mycelium, decomposition, and queer embodiment as interlocking forms of becoming. Hill's poetics are participatory and process