Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low Edges The North

Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low Edges The NorthWriting in northern time through lockdowns and into the meta crises since, Stephen Sawyer asks urgent questions about what it is that makes us human in the face of so many threats to life and what sustains it. Carrying a Tree on the Bus to Low Edges is a forest of stories and voices, a portrait of the uprooted, unheard, locked in and locked out of place and time, a soulful, luminous meditation to reaffirm bonds and identities that cross borders and

Co-edited by Irish poet Mary O’Donnell and Galician scholar Manuela Palacios

born in New Jersey

deserves a prize for the best cover photograph - the author seated in a deckchair totally naked except for this laptop' - the Spectator

A return to his birthplace was blighted by politics

train their eagle-eyes on life at the margins

Winging through the leaves of this unique anthology and hanging upside down on its every page are bats large and small

unputdownable epic in miniature

and endless war

a woman comes to know and love Samsa

Her work has truly haunted me

Through a veneer of comforting domesticity

Both these qualities grace Jack Thacker’s poems not of surface glamour