Eight keen poets recently booked onto a day-long poetry workshop led by Helen Jagger, many of them regular members of The Indian King Poets who meet to write poetry most Mondays in Camelford (phone 01840 212161 for further details). Using the teaching room upstairs at the Boscastle Visitors' Centre, courtesy of manager Rebecca David, for an

introduction and later writing time, the group first of all visited The Dizzard, an area of ancient oak woodland on the cliffs between St Gennys and Millook. An hour was spent among the trees, drinking in the atmosphere, and the landscape, before returning to Boscastle to write and develop potential poems. The workshop was funded by the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership Board as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations — and as part of Camelford Poetry Stanza's celebrations of the Poetry Society's Centenary. Their programme of workshops has celebrated the Great Trees of Cornwall since April in venues all over the county and has included readings at the Camelford Gallery in partnership with the Cornwall Watercolour Society. The grand finale will be a reading of work by tutors and students to round off a day of celebrating the Great Trees of Cornwall (GTOC) at Trelissick on October 31, organised by the Ancient Tree Forum and others. This GTOC project is a partnership of the National Trust, Ancient Tree Forum, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and many others which aims to map, record and celebrate all the great trees of Cornwall over the next three years.