The Treekeeper's Tale Ken Worpole

The Treekeeper's Tale Ken WorpoleAlready well known for the fierce confessional imagery of her first three books, The Treekeeper's Tale points towards another facet of the poet's gift, an intense feeling for the natural world, allied with a personal response to historical incidents and to other lands. The title section of this four part collection adopts the giant coast redwood trees in California as a particular talisman. Lyrical, resonant, strange and imaginative, these poems echo

"A good translation suggests how the poet

Magazines such as Dream Catcher are invaluable for writers to find first and new outlets

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• a lively range of contemporary poetry by new and established writers

The violets are children with bare feet

across a screen

No one’s springing to attention

An extract from a verse-play rubs shoulders with a chapter from an unpublished verse novel

introduced by Helen Beer

born in 1974 in Rotterdam into a Palestinian-Dutch family

Remember the Birds is cathedral-esque in its aspirations

Banipal 38 also celebrates the flourishing modernist poetry movement in the United Arab Emirates