Plants in contemporary poetry : ecocriticism and the botanical imagination Introduction: the botanical imagination Sacred ecologies of plants: the vegetative soul in Les Murrays poetry That porous line: Mary Oliver and the intercorporeality of the vegetal body It healeth inward wounds: bioempathic emplacement and the radical vegetal poetics of Elisabeth Bletsoe From stinking goose foot to bastard toadflax: botanical humor in Alice Oswalds Weeds and wild flowers Consciousness buried in earth: vegetal memory in Louise Glücks The wild iris That seed sets time ablaze: Judith Wright and the temporality of plants On the death of plants: John Kinsellas radical pastoralism and the weight of botanical melancholia Every leaf imagined with us: vegetal hope and the love of flora in Joy Harjos poetry