Letters to a Tree Rootbound Archives: A Guide for Tree Lovers Everywhere

Letters to a Tree: Rootbound Archives A Guide for Tree Lovers Everywhere by Carol Webb What if the tree you pass every morning is not just scenery, but a witness, a confidant, a former lover? In this genre-defying collection, Carol Webb invites readers into a poetic archive of intimacy, grief, and quiet transformation, told through verses, diary fragments, park keeper logs, council reports, and playful dating ads from trees across London. Inspired by the literary legacy of Kafka's Letters to Milena, and shaped by forest bathing experiences with Susanne Meis and the pedagogical insights of Zinab Hendawy, this book reimagines trees as emotional infrastructure: rooted companions in our most private reckonings. Whether you're a poet, a wanderer, or someone who's ever leaned into bark and felt something rustle back, Letters to a Tree offers a guide to loving trees not metaphorically, but relationally. It's a book to read aloud beneath branches, to annotate with your own longing, and to return to when the seasons shift. Part love letter, part field guide, part elegy, this is a book for anyone ready to begin a relationship with the rooted. Includes: - Poetic correspondence between humans and trees - Unsent verses and posthumous diary entries - Park keeper observations and council evaluations - A symbolic index of tree archetypes - A guide for finding your tree and writing your own legacy Lean in, and touch bark. It's been waiting.