"With deep roots and wandering branches, Lawrence Illsley’s A Brief History of Trees is brilliantly arboreal in both form and matter, a psychologically acute odyssey through grief and history, with its stanzaic spine sometimes holding firm as a trunk, sometimes scattered and blown into leaves and flowers. Highly original, enticing and profound."

                     - Glyn Maxwell, nominated for the T.S. Eliot prize 2020 

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"My intuition was right, these words go straight to the heart... I have to read it again and again" RYVISTA magazine 

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                  "A beautiful Book" Sarah McQuaid

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            "Wonderful" Sandra Wilden       "Profound and Beautiful" E Radcliffe 

       

    "Heartbreaking" Imogen Newton        "Beautifully Written" @dogknowscsl

         

                "So Poignant" Debbie Swann       "Recommended Reading" Mary Huggie

 

                               "A Wonderful Collection" @poetrycocktail

 

  "This collection touches me profoundly" Dinah Butler

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