The Language of Trees

Katie Holten

The Language of Trees is a beautifully illustrated love letter to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Powers, Suzanne Simard, Gaia Vince, Tacita Dean, Plato and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

In this deeply thoughtful collection, artist Katie Holten gifts readers her visual Tree Alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate these pieces from some of the world’s most exciting writers and artists, activists and ecologists.

Holten guides us on a journey from prehistoric cave paintings and creation myths to the death of a 3,500-year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry. In doing so, she unearths a new way of seeing the natural beauty that surrounds us and creates an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away.

Pub date: 15 June 2023

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783967483 epub: 9781783967490

Genre: Nature / Gift

Format: Hardback

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 320 pages

Rights: UK & Commonwealth

Katie Holten is an artist and activist, born in Ireland and living in New York City and Ardee, Ireland. In 2003 she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Dublin City Gallery. Her work has appeared in the Irish Times, New York Times and frieze. She is a visiting lecturer at the New School of the Anthopocene. If she could be a tree, she would be an Oak.