'If Cooke’s previous book, Lyre, urged us towards the ‘more’ of the more-than-human world, then The grass is greener over your grave returns to the ‘human’ end of that spectrum—though always with an eye to the porosity of the human and its immersion in waves of land, language, dream, and sea. Typically wide-ranging in form, this new collection develops Cooke’s preoccupations with colonisation, ecology, metaphysics, and travel, while also acknowledging their heritage in the life and work of the late poet Martin Harrison.' (Publication summary)
