There’s something about illustrated books that is very immersive. There’s something more than paintings on their own. Something about books, the way you turn the pages and you’re looking at the images combined with the words, like in children’s picture books. I can hardly think of reading experiences that have been so fully absorbing as children’s books, certain children’s books, really good children’s books. And comics have that too, because they’re also a combination of word and image. But in a shorter comic, like these poetry comics, there’s more time to pay attention to the individual panels than you would in a longer comic, where you’re just kind of scanning through comic book images in a fraction of a second. So I think that does create something immersive, a heightened kind of reading experience.

The comic artist behind Plough’s new anthology of nature poems talks to Joy Clarkson on the Another Life podcast.