Is this the way the universe works? (77 verses / 555 verses)

This is a performative book containing performative tanrenga poems to be read out loud. A tanrenga poem looks like a tanka, a five lined Japanese poetry form but it isn’t. It’s a conversation between a three line haiku like poem and a two line poem written by another writer in response, in this case British artist-curator Gavin Wade and poet Paul Conneally.
77 Verses is a collection of such conversations, written in and of and out of the woods in Drenthe, of plants and rocks from the wood in Bronneger (NL).These include pines and oaks and hunabeds (prehistoric megalithic funerary monuments).
555 Verses is a collection of such conversations, written in and out of Twitter from 2017–2023, of plants from Triangle Garden, Birmingham.The plants are outstanding examples of adaptation strategies in response to changes in environmental conditions including many cacti and succulents and bananas.