Heartwood
Poems for the Love of Trees
EDITED BY LESLEY STRUTT
A LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS ANTHOLOGY
WITH A FOREWORD BY DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER
Join local poets and poets across Canada in celebrating … Heartwood: Poems for the Love of Trees. With over 100 poems and contributions from poets all over the country, Heartwood is a tribute to and celebration of the timeless impact of nature on Canadian poetry.
We must turn to the poets to expand dreams. This is because trees are the parents to the child deep within us. Forests bear silent witness to the tides of time upon which we will be judged. Trees are a gift of the galaxies, their fabric a web of stardust. The web holds nothing, a void from nowhere. This is the playground of the poets, the great plane of creation. The entire music of the universe is held in the trees. It is amplified again, again, and again within the forest. To listen to this music is to meditate. Taken alone, this is sufficient reason to make all forests sacred. And us accountable.
— Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of The Sweetness of a Simple Life and The Global Forest: 40 ways trees can save us
Jessica is a contributor to this anthology. The complete list of contributors includes:
Sylvia Adams
Lillian Allen
Mia Anderson
Cheryl Antao-Xavier
Bill Arnott
Sonja Arntzen
Susan Jane Atkinson
Jonathan Ball
Marsha Barber
Brian Bartlett
Maxianne Berger
bill bissett
Barbara Lynne Black
Rita Bouvier
Di Brandt
Allan Briesmaster
Jacquie Buncel
Heather Cadsby
Ann Elizabeth Carson
Louise Carson
Lori Cayer
Sue Chenette
George Elliott Clarke
Rosemary Clewes
Brenda Clews
Joan Conway
Dennis Cooley
Flavia Cosma
Claudia Coutu Radmore
Nane Couzier
Phillip Crymble
Robert Currie
Mary Dalton
Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni
Magie Dominic
Anthony Di Nardo
John Donlan
Miriam Dunn MacDonald
Alison K. Dyer
Amanda Earl
Daniela Elza
Joanne Epp
Kim Fahner
Harold Feddersen
Linda Frank
Katerina Fretwell
Pam Galloway
Keith Garebian
Judy Gaudet
Veronica Gaylie
Suparna Ghosh
Adele Graf
Catherine Graham
Elizabeth Greene
gillian harding-russell
Maureen Scott Harris
Steve Heighton
Brian Henderson
Luann E. Hiebert
Jessica Hiemstra
Nancy Holmes
Barbara Hunt
Luciano Iacobelli
Keith Inman
Kevin Irie
Doyali Islam
Sally Ito
Marvyne Jenoff
Elena E. Johnson
Jim Johnstone
Clara Joseph
Patricia Keeney
Penn Kemp
Norma J. Kerby
Monica Kidd
Sarah Klassen
Judith Krause
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Ted Landrum
Donna Langevin
Max Layton
John B. Lee
Carl Leggo
Brenda Leifso
Joanna Lilley
Lois Lorimer
Jeanette Lynes
Dorothy Mahoney
Alice Major
Blaine Marchand
Dave Margoshes
Kate Marshall Flaherty
Don Martin
Sheila Martindale
Wendy A. McGrath
rob mclennan
Susan McMaster
Kenneth McRobbie
George McWhirter
Anne Michaels
Carmelo Militano
Michael Mirolla
Lorie Miseck
Lynda Monahan
Stephen Morrissey
Colin Morton
Roger Nash
Emily Nilsen
Chad Norman
Merle Nudelman
Debbie Okun Hill
Richard Osler
Gianna Patriarca
Michael Penny
Allan Peterkin
Pamela Porter
David Pratt
Karen Quevillon
Al Rempel
Pierrette Requier
Giovanna Riccio
Bruce Rice
Greg Santos
Angeline Schellenberg
Eleonore Schönmaier
Brenda Sciberras
Daniel G. Scott
Bryan Sentes
Vanessa Shields
Sue Sinclair
K.V. Skene
Hendrik Slegtenhorst
Glen Sorestad
Carol A. Stephen
Catherine J. Stewart
Sheila Stewart
Nellie P. Strowbridge
Betsy Struthers
Lesley Strutt
Lynn Tait
John Terpstra
Emmanuelle Vivier
Naomi Beth Wakan
David Waltner-Toews
Terry Watada
Phyllis Webb
Cassy Welburn
Margo Wheaton
David Yerex Williamson
Sheri-D Wilson
Elana Wolff
Bänoo Zan
Carolyn Zonalio