Oak by Katharine Towers Layli Long Soldier hurt and wonder

hurt and wonder

Fondue reaffirms Blakemore's place on the barricades

 by which she presents compelling arguments with astonishing feats of alliteration

Ramona Herdman

younger and happier

Oak by Katharine Towers Layli Long Soldier hurt and wonderOaks are some of our oldest companions, and have been rooted in human imagination and language for millennia. Their great, slow lives have always demanded our careful consideration (indeed Virginia Woolfs Orlando took 300 years over their own quercian epic). Katharine Towers new sequence of poems accompanies the oak from acorn to grave, and into its afterlife; playful, lyric and lucid, Oak is also shot through with an ecocritical awareness that