Name: Tree
ISBN: 9781913917708

About this book

'one day I wake up and it's November / bare branches are faulty umbilical cords / failing to implant the sky'

In Tree, Natalie Whittaker is writing about her personal experience of stillbirth and the mental illness that can follow such a traumatic event. It is a subject that is still rarely addressed in poetry, writing or conversation. That she is able to do so here, in eighteen intricate, carefully crafted poems, in a way that is engaging, communicative, distressing and yet also beautiful, is a testament to her abilities as a poet, her strong grasp on the power of language and the power of her imagination. With these powers, she brings a harrowing subject close up and enables the reader to truly feel, to see, to understand, to share. It is a brave and necessary work, wonderfully and heart-breakingly realised.

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tree

medical students perch around the room

drawn to our rare and bitter fruit

the consultant sketches winter branches

in biro blue to explain what connects

me to you what’s not getting through

spring

in a contagion of blossom

a pink blooming pandemic

I switch the radio on

a beat says mum

live live live

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to Tamar Yoseloff, Glyn Maxwell, and the Poetry School MA cohorts of 2018 – 2020. Thank you to Alice Hiller and Tamsin Hopkins for financial support throughout my MA, and to Vanessa Lampert for introducing me to acupuncture. Thank you to John Stammers’ advanced poetry workshop at City Lit for your continued support, and to the Covent Garden Stanza group. Thank you to the Barnehurst Sands group, Sharon Hurst, and the friends...