Thu, 22 Jun
|The Grosvenor Arms
The Language of Trees
Hear artist Katie Holten talk about her book, The Language of Trees. Her world book tour includes only 4 venues in England - Shaftesbury is one of them thanks to Folde Bookshop. Tickets free, but must be pre-booked through Folde.
Time & Location
22 Jun 2023, 18:30
The Grosvenor Arms, High St, Shaftesbury SP7 8JA, UK
About the Event
Robert Macfarlane has written: “There is no lone tree language, but a forest of tree languages.”
In The Language of Trees, Katie Holten invites us to enter some of these forests. She created a Tree Alphabet to translate a compendium of well known, loved, lost and new writing. She takes readers on a journey from creation myths and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to Emerson’s language of fossil poetry, unearthing a grove of beautiful stories along the way.