*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS * ¿ THE IRISH TIMES
BESTSELLER and IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Max Porter 'A
forest of writing to be cherished' Irish Times 'One of the most inspired items of
environmental literature in recent years.' Irish Independent If trees have memories
respond to stress and communicate what can they tell us? And will we listen? A
stunning international collaboration that reveals how trees make our world change our minds
and rewild our lives - from root to branch to seed. In this beautifully illustrated
collection artist Katie Holten gifts readers her visual Tree Alphabet and uses it to
masterfully translate and illuminate pieces from some of the world's most exciting writers and
artists activists and ecologists. Holten guides us on a journey from prehistoric cave
paintings and creation myths to the death of a 3 500 year-old cypress tree from Tree Clocks in
Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry. In doing so she
unearths a new way of seeing the natural beauty that surrounds us and creates an urgent
reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away. Printed in deep green ink
The Language of Trees is a celebratory homage filled with prose poetry and art from over
fifty collaborators including Ursula K. Le Guin Robert Macfarlane Zadie Smith Radiohead
Elizabeth Kolbert Amitav Ghosh Richard Powers Suzanne Simard Gaia Vince Tacita Dean Plato
and Robin Wall Kimmerer. 'Immersive celebratory... all beautifully illustrated.'
Observer 'A visual reminder that like strong oaks from little acorns we still can
create the world in which we wish to live.' Kerri ní Dochartaigh 'A thoughtful and
incisive view of Nature across the globe.' The Countryman
