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These four poems are from a group ‘Saying it with Flowers’ that makes imaginative connections between lives of plants and human actions.

The poems, in settings of fear and danger, inspired the composer David Loxley-Blounts’s compostion DuoSet, four pieces for organ and solo instruments. The first performances took place at St Lawrence Jewry, Guildhall Yard, in the City of London, as part of a series of free lunchtime concerts on four Tuesdays in October 2016.

They are illustrated with linocuts by Emily Johns.

“Phillips buries bullets (if not land mines). They lie in the text like his snowdrops who didn’t see daylight for years and like Glück’s Wild Iris who return from oblivion to find a voice.”

Joan Michelson, London Grip and Acumen

“This mini pamphlet… collectively constitutes an object lesson in Saying it with Flowers.”

Jeremy Page, The Frogmore Papers

“…a small objet d’art, its metaphors reminiscent of Jon Silkin’s Flower Poems (1965).”

Peter Lawson, The Jewish Chronicle