Olive Senior, a Jamaican-born writer, captures the essence of childhood and adulthood with a keen eye for nature, history, and local intricacies. Her upbringing in Jamaica’s mountainous landscape deeply influences her work.
With numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Senior’s poetry, fiction, and non-fiction seamlessly intertwine themes of identity, ethnicity, and Caribbean life, often with an ironic and humorous touch. Senior’s works are a vibrant testament to her Caribbean roots and literary prowess.
‘Plants’ by Olive Senior is a unique free verse poem that describes the deceptiveness of plants. It uses irony and humor to suggest that plants are trying to take over the world.
Plants are deceptive. You see them there
looking as if once rooted they know
their places; not like animals, like us
always running around, leaving traces.
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