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Poets, both settler and Indigenous, pay tribute to trees through reflections on the past, connections to the present, and calls for the protection of our future. In
Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees, celebrated poets and activists pay homage to the ghosts of lost forests and issue a rallying cry to protect remaining ancient giants and restore uncolonized spaces.
Themes of connection, ecology, grief, and protection are explored through poems about trees and forests written by an impressive number of influential poets, several of whom have attended the recent Fairy Creek blockades and still others who defended old growth ecosystems in Clayoquot Sound nearly 30 years ago.
Contributors include ninth Parliamentary Poet Laureate Louise Bernice Halfe-Sky Dancer, GG winner Arleen Paré, Canadian icon bill bissett, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Eve Joseph, ReLit Award winner Patrick Friesen, Order of Canada and Order of the Rising Sun recipient Joy Kogawa, Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam, Harold Rhenisch, Jay Ruzesky, John Barton, Kate Braid, Kim Trainor, Kim Goldberg, Pamela Porter, Patricia and Terence Young, Russell Thornton, Sonnet L'Abbé, Susan McCaslin, Susan Musgrave, Tom Wayman, Trevor Carolan, Yvonne Blomer, Zoe Dickinson, and the late Pat Lowther.
About the author
Christine Lowther has been a lifelong activist and a resident of Clayoquot Sound since 1992. She is the editor of
Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees (Caitlin Press, 2022), co-editor of two collections of essays,
Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast (The Key Publishing House, 2012) and
Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place (Ronsdale Press, 2008), and the author of one memoir,
Born Out of This (Caitlin Press, 2014), and three books of poetry,
My Nature (Leaf Press, 2010),
Half-Blood Poems (Zossima Press, 2011) and
New Power (Broken Jaw Press, 1999).
