Congratulations to NEPC member Terence Culleton for the release of his new collection of poems, A Tree and Gone, now out through Future Cycle Press. A Tree and Gone is a collection of fifty-four English sonnets divided into three sections. Each section explores aspects of our relationship to ourselves and the natural world.
According to Culleton, “This book has been fifteen years in the making. It’s nice to have reached closure on it and to be able to share it with others.”
Early Praise
“[Culleton’s] poems are rife with motion, often of waves and of winds, but also of a bird dropping that lands on a leaf of chickweed or of a dog that we see “pitch and zag/in wafts and skirls of blindingly bright snow.” That motility might seem at odds with such a traditional form as the sonnet, but there’s a blessed rage for order here, and the artifice is often pressured by the changes that these poems document. [T]he skillful control is reminiscent of Richard Wilbur.”—Temple Cone, author of Sky Bright Psalms and Guzzle.
“Culleton’s themes . . . include philosophy, religion, love, aging, and the fear of death, the whole gamut of human existence. This has always been the ambitious remit achievable by the best sonneteers, among whom Culleton must surely be counted.”—Anna Evans, editor, Barefoot Muse and Raintown Review; author of The Unacknowledged Legislator
“Intelligent, humorous, mouth-fillingly musical, and always thought-provoking, Terence Culleton’s poems pay allegiance to the whole history of English prosody . . . close your eyes and let the sound of sense carry you away.”—C.E. Mann, author of After the Pledge of Allegiance
Where to buy
A Tree and Gone is available in Kindle and print format through FutureCycle Press, as well as through the author’s website:
Bookshop | Amazon | terenceculletonpoetry.com
For more information and review copies
Terence Culleton | 215.534.3633 | tculleton33@yahoo.com | terenceculletonpoetry.com