A Tree: A Reader on Arboreal Kinship

by Marjolein Van Der Loo (Editor)

Genres: Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2025

Reviews

[Nada · Rating 5 out of 5]

a booklet really, but I would love to hear more 3

[Namita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mind bending. Also delighted when the sun hit my page and I saw that the ink wasn’t just black

Some of the exhibit documentation was hard to parse

[aimilina · Rating 5 out of 5]

transcendental! a thoughtful, scientific and emotive selection of poems, prose, story and article, permeated throughout by beautiful art and photography of art, all on the subject of trees 🌲 and our connection to them as relatives

[Gabriella]

My stand-out favorite in this collection is "The Sleep of Plants" by Anne Richter (translated by Edward Gauvin). This short piece of fiction was terrific and totally unique; I am already looking for more of her work. However, I also made one bookmark in part of "Everything Goes In Nature: Learnings from the Plant Kingdom" by Celine Baumann, as well as the final page of "Primordial Tongues or the Language of Non-Autonomous Beings" by Karen Lofgren. Seeing as this book accompanies an art exhibit that I never saw or knew about prior to opening this book, I felt that I was missing content beyond the pages. As it is a collection of poetry, photos, essays, both fiction and non-fiction, it is a total mixed bag - thus making it hard to review on a 1-5 star scale.

[Brendan D · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spellbinding.

[Chanel Chapters]

For tree huggers 🌲

[Sini]

recommendation!