Memory Tree is crammed with imagery, giving glimpses of the lives of dog walkers, cleaners, miner’s wives, and builders. Culshaw’s people are the locals – ‘there’s rain, there’s sky dishes, small back gardens/ a neighbour who swops him a handshake’. Gareth Culshaw has an alert, original eye, and a tumbling, energising use of metaphor – ‘There’s a light behind each eye, maybe shines, or dims/ with each drag of his rollie’. This is a collection to savour.
– Jean Atkin
Gareth Culshaw lives in Wales. He has two collections by FutureCycle Press (USA), The Miner and A Bard’s View. He has an MA from Manchester Met. Gareth is widely published and won the R S Thomas Poetry Competition in 2019. He is a winner of the Backlash Press Best Book Award for 2022.
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