A new generation of old-growth defenders and activist-poets, from kindergarten to grade twelve, express their love and respect for trees.

In Worth More Growing, youth, from kindergarten through grade twelve, share their love and respect for trees. Speaking to our changing climate, this new generation of old-growth defenders express their observations, anger, kinship, hope, and sorrow. This unique anthology includes a wide range of voices--Indigenous, settler, immigrant, and even international youth. Worth More Growing is a necessary anthology highlighting the importance of nature to a generation that will experience the ongoing consequences of climate change.

Author: Christine Lowther
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.87h x 5.43w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9781773860978

About the Author
Christine Lowther has been a lifelong activist and a resident of Clayoquot Sound since 1992. She is the author of three books of poetry, New Power, My Nature, and Half-Blood Poems. Her memoir, Born Out of This (Caitlin Press, 2014), was a finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize at the 2015 BC Book Prizes. Christine is the editor of the poetry anthology Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees (Caitlin Press, 2022). Recipient of the inaugural Rainy Coast Arts Award for Significant Accomplishment in in 2014, Chris served as Tofino Poet Laureate 2020-2022.