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A Forest For Calum by Frank MacDonald
5.0

A forest planted of various trees, each species of which stands for a letter of the Gaelic alphabet, so that a poem literally grows out of the earth … this image struck me forcefully as a perfect metaphor for language having its origin in nature. (Which should make us wonder, when a language wanes, what is the loss to humanity?) Just one of the layers in this great piece of storytelling.