Publisher's Synopsis
"Seeing Trees: A Poetic Arboretum brings together the work of poets John Charles Ryan and Glen Phillips on the tree life of Australia and other places. The collection addresses themes of Aboriginal ecological knowledge, settler history, fire, transformation, personal memory, family heritage and emotional identification with trees. Whereas the work of Phillips focuses mostly on Western Australia and, in particular, the Wheatbelt region where the poet was born, Ryan's poems turn to the arboreal inhabitants of the New England region of New South Wales as well as neighboring countries"--.
