Remembering the Sycamore Gap Tree on National Poetry Day 2023

On National Poetry Day 2023, we wanted to take a moment to mark the loss of the Sycamore Gap tree with a print by the poet and artist Jane Burn, and a poem by Philip Gross which, while not specifically about that event, can be read in relation to it.

WINDTHROW BY PHILIP GROSS

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An accessible Google word document version of this poem is available here.

Jane Burn is a working-class, autistic, pansexual hybrid writer. She is widely published. Jane has an MA in Writing Poetry. In 2022, Jane explored her neurodivergent writer’s experiences, funded by ACE. In 2023 she received a grant from the RLF. Her latest collection, Be Feared, is available from Nine Arches.

Philip Gross’s The Thirteenth Angel (Bloodaxe, 2022) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He is a keen collaborator, e.g., with artist Valerie Coffin Price on A Fold in The River (2015), with Lesley Saunders on A Part of the Main (2018) and Welsh-language poet Cyril Jones on Troeon/Turnings (2021).