Forest for the Trees 3 poems

Quintessential Fine Books, 2021

Philosophical poetry on the human condition.

Vergil's Georgics, Cinna's Smyrna and Cinna Fr. 11 (Courtney)

Erothanatos, 2021

2024

Essential projection if trees are to become ancient few insistences slower than old trees Accrued niching at bodged clearances an irreplaceable is sapping human speeds Invasive afforestation, lodge it with pines, engross the uplands nothing sparse about the correctness offered its pole pressure Any tree-total upland is tireless, swathed in indurate spoil, horizontal furling, sitka comprehensives Peter Larkin contributed to The Ground Aslant: an Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry, ed. Harriet Tarlo (2011). A symposium on his work was held at Warwick University (UK) in 2018, the proceedings of which appeared in the Journal of British & Irish Innovative Poetry. Among recent collections are Trees Before Abstinent Ground (2019) and Encroach to Resume (2021). A set of 100 twoto three-line poems, Sounds Between Trees appeared in 2022 from Guillemot Press. His newest collection is If Trees Allay an Earth Retrialling (Shearsman, 2023).

2013

The poems in this collection came about as I explored my surroundings upon moving home to Denman Island after six years living away. My history in this place goes back some thirty years, and I have tried, with this work, to map the psychogeography of it, of what this place is to me. To do so, I had to articulate for myself how personal meaning becomes located in a place, and how one's psyche becomes embedded there. Walking is a constant in my life, and I explored, rediscovered , and re-acquainted myself with home by retracing familiar routes or paths: hence, walking home, traversing known territory, but with knowledge displaced by time. I have tried to incorporate the proprioceptive experience of each route, and to synthesize the surroundings, movement, and thought that comprise a moment in time, and that are part of both conscious and subconscious perception. Each poem has an epigraph: the name of a place or trail, and a waypoint that is the latitude-longitude coordinates of th...

Critical Times

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First Opinions Second Reactions, 2013

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Creative works by Dominique Hecq, Rachel Hennessy, Lynn Davidson, Toni Roberts, Jane Downing, Craig Jordan-Baker

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Poetry and prose by Thom Conroy, Aaron Chapman, Andrew Leggett

The Poetry Ireland Review, No. 104 (September 2011), pp. 134-136, 2011

Reviewed Work(s): New Collected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith and Matthew McGuire;