VISUAL POETRY: SACHA ARCHER

TREE SKETCHES
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Silver Maple. Acer sacchcirinum. 45 min. 23.05.16

Weeping Willow. Salix babylonica. 90 min. 25.05.16

Scotch Elm. Ulmas glabra. 20 min. 03.06.16

Tea Crabapple. Malus hupehensis. 45 min. 11.06.16

Cucumber Magnolia. Magnolia acuminate. 180 min. 12.06.16

Tree Sketches were each composed by a different species of tree. As a writer, connected to story, I felt it a salient action in this time of environmental crisis to step back and listen to the subjects I might otherwise have written over. 

Each caption includes the species of trees, both common and Latin names, as well as the duration and date of each composition.


Tree Sketches # 1 & 3 were originally published by The Blasted Tree in 2017 as a series of broadsides, while the remaining works are presented on its website, all of them presented under the title The Sign of Poetry.

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Sacha Archer is a writer who works in numerous mediums as well as being the editor of Simulacrum Press. Archer’s most recent publications include Inkwells: An Event Poem (Noir:Z, 2019), TSK oomph (Inspiritus Press, 2018) and Contemporary Meat  (The Blasted Tree, 2018). Houses (No Press), Framing Poems and Mother’s Milk (both Timglaset) are forthcoming. Archer lives in Burlington, Ontario with his wife and two daughters.

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