Scarcely Carry All Vast Woods

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These poems explore further and future ways of plants and trees and won't duck from being permeated at the same time by irradiating horizons or tensile symbols which perform a vital role in any multi-dimensional inter-relations.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'This is not a poetry about trees but about trees as a means of thinking the material through which we can and do think a world its ontology its epistemology too. The tree as discourse. The tree as perceiver of what the tree needs to know.'-Stephen Collis</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Peter Larkin is one of the most important poets writing today. His career mapped across his six collections of poetry ten pamphlets as well as a monograph and several critical articles spans a period rich with poetic innovation and change. Echoes from the work of the Imagists Black Mountain poets Language poets British Poetry Revival poets and 'radical landscape' poets resonate in a wholly new kind of verse ecological and religious scarce and abundant oblique and material. - E.J. Mason</p><p></p><p></p><p>Larkin challenges the conventions of traditional 'nature' poetry. He does not see 'nature' as providing a straightforward sense of belonging or of nurture. What is available to us is more like a hint of something given but only scarcely something which remains beyond our reach or comprehension. - Simon Collings</p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>