With Sarah Salway
Whether they are beautiful or blooming, wonderful or warped – all seen through a literary lens.
I like to think of my visits to gardens, and garden related things, as different selection of new drawers to pull out and peer into. The Writer in the Garden cabinet is very personal, as all the best ‘wonder rooms’ were, so you can expect to find poetry, a piece of art, a book or exhibition review, a childhood memory, an extraordinary fact, a place to visit, or an object of desire. Come and be surprised!
Once I stayed in a haunted house after a literary festival in Scotland. It was so haunted, in fact, that…
Maybe because it’s been too wet here in the UK to be out much in the garden, but I’ve been…
Shhh… you’ll have to listen even harder at the moment to hear the artwork whispering to you outside King’s Strand…
Apparently the purest honey in France comes from Paris. Who knew? Well, the bees do, I guess, but they were…
Getting inspiration from nature with creative writing prompts
Last year I was lucky enough to be invited to be one of the writers in residence at the Alde…
I don’t know about you but I’ve been loving the trees at the moment. I’m hungry for them – for…
I started doing prompts for creative writing particularly designed for gardeners a little while ago but then life took over.…
It’s National Poetry Day today – and for this, I wanted to take at least one of our words about…
this is a smellograph, the delicacy of rose surrendering to rain I went out into my garden this morning just…
I want to share the things I love about gardens – whether it is a typical English garden, a video about a New York plant shop, or an eccentric plant collector. These posts are an insight into how I find joy, creativity and inspiration in my garden visits. I hope they will inspire you too!