Trees, Woods and the Green Man

Trees Be Company

Trees Be Company is an anthology of poetry chosen by Angela King and Susan Clifford as a celebration of our long and deep cultural relationship with trees and woods.

In the UK, despite our love of trees, our dependency on them and our long history of woodland conservation, most of our ancient woods have been felled. We have less woodland than almost any other country in Europe, although we do have the largest repository of very old trees.

If we are to combat local pollution, make even the slightest impact on global warming, enjoy our surroundings and share them with many other creatures, we need trees. If we are to nourish more than our prosaic needs, we need their longevity, their beauty, their generosity. Trees stand for nature and culture. We stand or fall with them.

With over 170 poems, this anthology includes well-known works by Blake, Tennyson and Wordsworth as well as less familiar ones from 20th century poets: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, Andrew Motion, Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder.

First published by Bristol Classical Press in 1989, Trees Be Company has now been re-published by Green Books in the UK, as one of three poetry anthologies from Common Ground. The others are The River's Voice and Field Days. The three are available as a boxed set; contact us for more information. Within please order from Common Ground.

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In North America the books are published by Chelsea Green