{"product_id":"the-oak-tree-and-the-nicholas-hagger-9781785358494","title":"The Oak Tree and the Branch: Poems 2016-2024","description":"Nicholas Hagger's \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e contained 30 volumes of his poems, and \u003ci\u003eLife Cycle and Other New Poems\u003c\/i\u003e contained volumes 31-34. Together they reflect his quest along the Mystic Way, and the vision of unity and harmony to which it led. \u003ci\u003eThe Oak Tree and the Branch \u003c\/i\u003econtains volumes 35-41 and continues his presentation of apparent conflicts and the underlying unity of the universe within his \u003ci\u003eArcadia\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Oak Tree and the Branch\u003c\/i\u003e sees the UK's departure from Europe as a lopped branch from the Tree of Tradition of European civilisation. \u003ci\u003eThe Tapestry \u003c\/i\u003edwells on his rootedness in the past, especially in the Tudor time. \u003ci\u003eA Plague in Arcadia: Oneness with Nature and the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e presents a host of nature poems in his local Fairmead's Arcadian paradise during the spread of coronavirus, the Covid plague.\u003ci\u003e An Oval Cloud\u003c\/i\u003e presents a sequence of encounters with an oval cloud seen behind his closed eyes, which he tries to understand. \u003ci\u003eCourt Poems: More Royal Classical Odes\u003c\/i\u003e includes Royal events: a wedding, two funerals and a coronation, and another lopped branch. In \u003ci\u003eArcady: A Gong and Padded Stick\u003c\/i\u003e surveys his Providential life. And the harrowing \u003ci\u003eAgony in Arcady: Stroke\u003c\/i\u003e wrings from him the whole range of emotions as he comes to terms with his daughter's severe stroke (another lopped branch) and heroic endurance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Hagger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1785358499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781785358494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liberalis Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Nicholas Hagger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097072607487,"sku":"9781785358494","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-oak-tree-and-the-nicholas-hagger-9781785358494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}