I am extremely fortunate and happy to have another chapter in my longstanding residency with J&L Gibbons out into the world, three new poems about TREES in a new publication - Conversations on Urban Forestry by Johanna Gibbons. https://jlg-london.com/

My poems, like all those I’ve written for this residency over five years, are language heavy, abstract, gestural, as they aim to elucidate language itself as a barrier or tool between the ideas of hands on work like landscape architecture, like the planting of trees, like the knowledge of trees and their affect on urban environments. The poems aim to be points of reflection and mediation to bring about, to those attentive to them, renewed attention to the ideas that this volume expounds and promotes wonderfully. This book is like all of Jo Gibbons work - lucid, erudite, convincing and necessary.