Some notes on trees and paths

Arboricultural Journal, 2014

published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge The Pitt

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...

The tree house, a building constructed around, next to or among the trunk on mature trees are mostly identical with romantic images of childhood memory of play and adventure. Historically, tree houses also recorded as primitive habitation, deliberate follies, and work’s space for arboreal designers, entertainment and even shelters for retreats. Nowadays the growing interests of alternative lifestyles have led tree houses to develop into the tourist lodging and hospitality business. Tree houses are alternative ideas of the organic integration of the buildings into their natural surroundings as they do not require a clearing of certain area of the forest. This paper tried to explore the history of tree houses since their fashionable periods as recreation during the Roman era. In modern times we found that a growing interest on direct experience with nature has resurgence the interest in tree houses as the alternative contemporary houses. We explored the work of Andreas Wenning, who designed tree houses that provide a house as “neither on the earth nor in the air”. As the case study, we chose a tree house complex erected at Taman Buru Masigit Kareumbi located at the conservation park in West Java. Using the theory of “human space” developed by Bollnow (2011), we tried to analyze how the space and surroundings of tree houses offered the visitors the sensory impressions that give dialectical experience of the mind and body with the surrounding environment. We concluded that tree house challenges both stimulating and imaginative designs.

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).

Forest Arabesques, or Sketches of Our Trees’ Life, 2019

The monograph describes some distinctive biological and ecological features of our forest trees in layman’s terms (in a popular form). It gives consideration to all the tree species such as larch, pine, spruce, fir, cedar, birch, aspen, oak, linden, willow; that are mostly represented in the Russian forests. The book is intended for professionals as forest scientists, botanists, students and graduate students and for wildlife enthusiasts.

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, 2007

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