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Title: The Tree Line
Condition: New
Subtitle: Poems for Trees, Woods and People
Author: Michael McKimm
Contributor: Michael McKimm (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1905208375
EAN: 9781905208371
ISBN: 9781905208371
Publisher: Worple Press
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 12/06/2017
Description: Over a period of several months poets were invited to write new poems in response to the 1217 Charter of the Forest, to trees or woodland of personal significance to them, or how trees have shaped our society, landscape and lives. They sent poems about trees in gardens and along the sides of roads, trees to climb and build dens in, favourite trees cut down. Poems about childhood, memory, history, motherhood, nationhood, law, mythology and death. Poems about turning into trees. Poems about getting lost in the woods. Poems about oak, ash, alder, pine, chestnut, birch and many more besides. They are a profound celebration of trees. A structure emerged which echoed the three branches of the Charter: Trees, Woods, People. Although many of the poems could find a home in any one of the three parts, in 'Trees' poems were gathered in which we encounter individual trees as species or organisms: their life cycles, the pleasure of standing in their presence, the act of taking them apart. In 'Woods' we meet trees en masse, go deeper into the forest and get lost in the beauty and otherworldliness of ancient woodland.A number of poems take inspiration from the original 1217 Charter, soaking up the language, giving us woods haunted by foresters, hunts and pageantry. In 'People' we come out of the woods and witness how trees shape our lives: our culture, our society and our psyche. The poems are at times dark, sometimes painfully sad, and often incredibly funny.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 135mm
Release Year: 2017

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