Forest by JLM Morton
Forest recounts the legend of the black pine that was the first tree to arrive in the young woodland at Sladebank, where Juliette has been working as a poet in residence. Pines are a very ancient genus, emerging in the Jurassic period. The black pine at Sladebank is first shown on an 1880 map; it then appears on an aerial photograph from 1933, and by 2023 when it appears on Googlemaps, it's merged entirely with the young woodland. A non-narrative, narrative poem told in free verse and fifty cinquains which accumulate through the pages to create a forest, FOREST explores the tree's experience of migrating across Europe to set root in the woods and to mature at a time of escalating conflict and climate emergency.
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