"It is said that the trees of the grove themselves are wise."

Welcome to the Immanent Grove, a collection of trees planted by members of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow to honour the graduates of our Fantasy MLitt programme. The trees form part of the Trees for Life project, which aims to rewild the ancient Caledonian forest by planting saplings at remote sites in the Highlands of Scotland. No one knows exactly where each tree will be; we know only that each will make a small contribution to enriching a larger whole. In this way each tree is like a student of fantasy, each of whom makes a small contribution to a new but rapidly expanding field of study with its roots in the past, just as our growing Grove has its roots in soil that has been enriched by ancient trees. We have named our widely-scattered Grove the Immanent Grove after a wood on the Island of Roke in Ursula Le Guin’s classic fantasy series, the Books of Earthsea. Many people think that this wood ‘moves about in a mystifying manner’; but in this they are mistaken, Le Guin informs us, ‘for the Grove does not move. Its roots are the roots of being. It is all the rest that moves’. May our wood, planted in the name of our graduates who are moving on, help to move the world on, too, in a better direction.