Tree Light

Yvonne Baker is married with three sons and five grandchildren. She worked for many years as a teacher in primary education, and later as a headteacher and religious education adviser. She has been published in print and on-line magazines and placed in competitions. Her poems have been included in Second Light, Paper Swans, Emma Press and Poetry Space anthologies. Her pamphlet Tree Light won an award from Cinnamon Press in 2022. She belongs to several poetry groups: Chichester Stanza, Taking Your Work Further, Kith Poets and Second Light Network, all of which offer support and friendship. She writes mostly around themes of identity, family, memory and the inner life.

Yvonne Baker’s poems are both lyrical and spiritual. In Tree Light she takes the reader into the woods near her home. She has so immersed herself in these they have become a presence in her life. She writes about the different trees, creatures which live in the woods, the effects of light and weather, makes the reader feel the touch of moss and lichen. Happenings in her life and her feelings about them are skilfully woven into her work. This debut pamphlet is a considerable achievement. —Myra Schneider