All the Roses and None of Them examines the relationship between human poetic language and the natural world. Chapter one maps the negotiable space between trees and poetic attempts at representation. Chapter two examines how even deliberately ‘ecological’ artworks do not always resist the temptation to impose authorship onto non-human others, exploiting ‘nature’ as a projection surface for human concerns. Chapter three points towards the possibility of a reconciliation between the concepts ‘nature’ and ‘language’, proposing that they are not antitheses, but part of the same flux, that human poetic language is inevitably part of nature.
