Terrain Seed Scarcity opens with a selection of poems in which the
concern for scarcity as a speculative edge first surfaced, and is
followed by six sequences arranged in short prose clusters or
stanzas, sometimes with verse tail-pieces. Four of these focus
directly on trees: under the aspect of addition as a branching
diversion rather than a dispersal; the co-forms of forest evoked as
edge, line and verticality; plantations as parallels to a
re-covered, stretched centre; a lean, denuded outcrop of trees
better served by what wheels around it than by what it fails to
contain. Some of these sequences are accompanied by brief essays as
sideshoots or offshoots. Other poems work through the sourcefulness
of an environmental sink figured also as recess or protection, and
there is a set of minimalist sententiae which rework 18th century
landscape aesthetics. The collection ends with a cycle of syllabic
poems, `Spirit of the Trees' derived from a once popular anthology.
Some of the more recent material is published here for the first
time.
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