Reposted by Mark Payne
Check out this Newcastle Chronicle article to find out more about the creation & partnership of our co-production with Newcastle Theatre Royal & Eastlake Productions of Our Friends In The North taking to the stage at Theatre Royal from next Thu 15 - Sat 24 Oct.
Read it at tinyurl.com/yv3vtx9d
![[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
comm n pr ble whe writin p ems
in the shape of decid o s trees
is t at once t ere ar ives
the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze,
he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly
ntil their letters loos n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]
turntomushuponthegroun
[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hptt3d3jvwahhnl3jvsycc2/bafkreihnclv63ugflspajhq3vwh5tw4kt4tvix7oacor266s4dqmgjxkzm)
