Tag: Chelsea Fringe
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Old maps, hands and ghost gardens…
Or fingertips anyway… This is me joining the marvellous Vegplotting’s Show of Hands for the Chelsea Fringe, and a chance to show you a corner of the ghost gardens that I’ve been researching for my Lost Gardens of the Strand walk. See how wonderful they are. And you can see from this map too how…
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Creative writing workshops about gardens and the landscape, plus some walks and weeks away…
I’m delighted to tell you that my latest book, Digging Up Paradise is now available for pre-order. It will come out ‘properly’ at the beginning of June, but in the meantime here are some courses and events which may be of interest: 3rd and 8th June – Explore the lost gardens of the Strand with…
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Chelsea Fringe – Cake in the Garden…
Well, I’ve come to the end of (almost) daily posts but haven’t come to the end of all the London gardens so I will be posting more on here. Slowly though. And will be collating them all under the London Garden tab on this website. It’s been yummy, a piece of cake, the cherry on my…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 16
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 16. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) Pop Up Garden by the Balcony Gardener, Squint This pop up garden by the Balcony Gardener has been a popular part of the Chelsea Fringe…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 15
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 15. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) BLOOMSBURY SQUARE OK, so this isn’t the prettiest London square, and when I sat there a lot of people seemed to be using it mostly…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 14
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 14. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) SALTERS’ COMPANY GARDEN, FORE STREET, EC4 It’s amazing to think this is the fourteenth garden in this series, and I wondered if I would find…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 13
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 13. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) Stone Flowers All the poems I’ve included so far have come from something in the garden. This one is a little different because it was…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 12
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 12. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) BONNINGTON SQUARE, VAUXHALL What do you get if you design a garden by committee? Well, if you are lucky you will end up with something…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 11
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 11. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) REDCROSS GARDEN, SOUTHWARK This is the garden that Octavia built… I love this garden, tucked away in Southwark, near Little Dorrit Street, and still fulfilling…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 10
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 10. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) THE POETRY POP UP GARDEN The brainchild of landscape designer, Marian Boswall, the Poetry Pop Up Garden is a welcome addition to the Chelsea Fringe.…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 9
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 9. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) MILLBANK GARDENS, JOHN ISLIP STREET This little public park sandwiches the Tate Britain with the Thames. I was walking round it thinking how it felt…
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Chelsea Fringe – London Garden No 7
Five Minutes Peace: a garden to sit in, a poem to read, and a prompt to write to … No 7. (Find out more about what this is all about here.) THE LITTLE BLACK GALLERY What’s this, I hear you cry. This isn’t a garden, it’s an art gallery. Ahhhh… but what’s inside it? An exhibition…