Tin House Live : Katie Holten on The Language of Trees

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry - A podcast by David Naimon, Tin House Books

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In Early Medieval Ireland there was a language called Ogham that was sometimes referred to as the “Celtic Tree Alphabet'” because its letters each corresponded to and depicted a different tree. At one point Ireland, now one of the most deforested countries in Europe, was largely covered in forest, its culture deeply entwined with the […]