PRE-ORDER NOW Heartwood by Rachel Bentham
PRE-ORDER NOW Heartwood by Rachel Bentham
A collection of poems by Rachel Bentham. Pre-order now. Title ships by November 10.
‘Heartwood is a love letter to trees, a cry of pain, a call to arms, A tender and precise telling of one woman’s relationship with trees, it engages with the life of trees as precisely and insightfully as the lives lived alongside them, Through subjects and forms as varied as woodland, she shows us not just how much we have to learn about trees, but how much they can teach us about ourselves, and about the world we could live in if we turn our attention to nature.' Clare Shaw, author and poet
Rachel Bentham has had numerous short stories, docudramas and plays broadcast by BBC Radio Four, and won prizes for scriptwriting and poetry. For many years, she was a Royal Literary Fellow, working with students and staff at the Universities of Cardiff, Cardiff Met, Bath, Exeter and Bristol.
Currently, Dr Bentham teaches lifewriting, memoir and general creative writing at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford – she's often deeply moved by the stories that people are brave enough to share in her classes.
She has four previous poetry collections; Trust, Let All Tongues Flower, Other Roads North and The Bhutan Haiku (published by Firewater Press).
