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Those Who Shape the Soil
A film that captures the narration of the Poem "Those Who Shape The Soil" by the 2026 Bard of Bath winner Richard Tyler. This is an extraordinary poem that uses trees as a metaphor for moulding the next generations. The written poem is below.
Richard Tyler's commentary on the film
There is a medicine in words that no pharmacy can hold....
When we slow down enough to truly listen, language stops being something we use and becomes something that moves through us. It carries us back to roots we'd forgotten we had, and reminds us that we are part of something older and wider than ourselves. This is the quiet work poetry has always done, and it is what I hoped to honour in "Those Who Shape the Soil."
I am proud and quietly humbled to share that this piece won me the Bardic Chair for Bath, Gorsedh Caer Baddon, in 2026, written to the year's theme of Elder.
The piece speaks to the Elder tree and to the deep patience of our forests, but also to the elders within our own communities, and to the eldership each of us is being invited to grow into. Poetry can sit beautifully on a page, yet something shifts when we breathe life into it through the voice. So, it felt right to film these words, to let their textures, colours and sounds find you where you are.
For that I owe deep thanks to my dear friend and colleague Al Gurr, an all round talented soul, who filmed and edited this with such care and craft. To Kelly, for your unconditional love and steady cheerleading. And to the Bath Bardic chair panel, for the trust you have placed in me.
My hope is simple. That these words reach somewhere deep, and touch you in some small way.
Those who shape the soil
By Richard Tyler
They do not stand apart from the forest.
They are where the forest slows down just
enough to speak.
You’ll recognise them
by the way the ground gathers itself
around their roots,
by the patience of their shade,
by the way birds trust them
with unfinished songs.
An elder is not old
in the way the clock insists.
They are old the way mountains are—
because they have stayed,
while so much has passed through them.
They have learned
what to keep
and what to let fall.
Their bodies hold weather.
Their voices carry seasons.
Their silence is not absence,
but a listening refined
by long devotion to what lasts.
The young move quickly,
like saplings testing the light.
They lean, they bend,
they reach without knowing yet
what will hold them
when storms arrive.
The elders do not pull them back.
They do not hurry their growth.
They stand close enough
that when the wind comes,
the young can feel
another way to stand.
This is how wisdom travels—
not as instruction,
but as proximity.
The land remembers this arrangement.
It has always worked this way.
The oldest trees do not dominate the canopy;
they shape the soil.
They make the forest possible
by what they give beneath the surface.
Their rings are not trophies.
They are records.
Fire. Drought. Loss. Renewal.
Each year held without argument.
Discernment grows this way—
slowly,
through having survived enough
to recognise what matters
and what will pass on its own.
Eldership is not authority.
It is responsibility
to hold the long view
when others cannot yet see beyond the bend.
It is knowing when to speak
and when to let silence
do the teaching.
It is becoming a bridge
made not of certainty,
but of trust—
strong enough to cross,
humble enough to disappear
once the crossing is made.
The young do not need elders
to tell them who to be.
They need elders
who have made peace
with who they are no longer becoming.
That peace is felt.
It settles the nervous system of the village.
It steadies the hands of those
just learning to carry their own lives.
When an elder falls,
the forest feels it.
Light changes.
Space opens.
Something new begins its long reaching.
But nothing is lost.
The wisdom does not vanish.
It moves underground,
into story,
into memory,
into the way the land continues
to teach those who are willing
to stand still long enough.
If we are listening,
the elders are still speaking—
through bark and bone,
through breath and soil,
through the quiet instruction of endurance:
Stay.
Pay attention.
Let your life become something
others can rest against
while they find their way.