New Shoots Launch Event - The Day in Tweets
Ready? Let's go! Bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning. #sydneywritersfestival #SWF16
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The Red Room Company's poetic arts project of 2016, New Shoots was launch at The Sydney Writers' Festival, in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and The Planthunter.
To find out more about the project »
Explore the New Shoots commissioned poems »
Read about Mark, Eileen, and Eric »
"This time with New Shoots and @RBGSydney is about reflection and memories." #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots pic.twitter.com/BfBIuTkcTm
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"The Red Room Company makes poetry a meaningful part of life through community." #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots pic.twitter.com/rQUP0iMSBd
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#newshoots #sydneywritersfestival pic.twitter.com/iXEC8FbAUn
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"Poems are spiral, not linear." - Eileen Chong #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots #poetry
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@RedRoomCompany Something like the veins in a leaf. Poems at their best, like music come from natural patterns, follow organic rhythms
— Sally Corbett (@thatsjazz2) May 21, 2016
"A lot of aboriginal people write poetry... I think poetry is important to culture." - Eric Avery #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"What was the question again?" (Eric) "Whatever you want it to be." (@ThePlanthunter)
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"I like to write [poetry] on music. On music paper." - Eric Avery #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"... handwriting like mine, sometimes it's difficult to figure out what you wrote." - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"We had moments... Realising that youre with the trees that you wrote about... That was special." - Mark #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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Cognitive dissonance on the peace of poetry while considering the deaths of aboriginals that happened here #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"This place - more than the screamings on the bay - it's like a dreaming." - Eric Avery #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"That's what I access in the poetry. The dreaming." - Eric Avery #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"I feel a deep connection in my work to Chinese poets who have written 2000 years ago." - Eileen Chong #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots
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Being invited to the gardens, & be paid, and to have an audience. That is showing poets they are valued. #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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#newshoots #redroomcompany #plantsarefriends #sydneywritersfestival pic.twitter.com/xGMcf8TZqy
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Time for our 2pm session! #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival pic.twitter.com/PjsgsthkDr
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Dr Tamryn Bennett: the calmest person on this earth. #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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How would the poem be connected to the plants that the paper and poems are made of? - Tamryn Bennett #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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The pieces as an offering to the time period past - Eric Avery #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"... the paperbark is being strangled... A metaphor for the resilience of my people." - Eric #sydneywritersfestival pic.twitter.com/sRsG3ovQD2
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The irreplaceable Eileen Chong. #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival pic.twitter.com/S2nZ4dcIv6
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The fern: a quiet and rebellious growth, especially for women - Eileen Chong #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots
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Why are people viewing [Mrs Macquaries Folly] without seeing its deeper meaning? - Eileen Chong #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots
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A banyan tree as a symbol of comfort and abandonment. Sounds complicated. #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"Plants have given so much of themselves to me and poems are a way to give back." - Eileen Chong #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots
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Eileen Chong reading her poetry at "New Shoots" #sydneywritersfestival Sydney Botanic Gardens pic.twitter.com/1VoR5Hb70c
— Rob Cairns (@robbiepoet) May 21, 2016
The importance of the mud of the lotus. - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival pic.twitter.com/PFnocM9To9
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If you want heaven, start in mud. - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival pic.twitter.com/GxIEJo5SB3
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Line breaks force you to make linguistic choices. - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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@RedRoomCompany or to put it another way helps you to think turn this way or that, slow down, contemplate
— Adamaitken (@adamaitken39) May 21, 2016
In poetry, I like for it to make sense, but I like it to slant. - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival pic.twitter.com/8hGiffUJhd
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For another Mark Tredinnick poem https://t.co/8IlRoBVK3j #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"I kill plants! I can't garden! I'm not a plant poet." #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots
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.. Eric Avery played Bach to bark. #badumtsh #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"It's so exciting to be given this kind of support." - Eileen Chong #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots
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"There's a certain kind of burden and responsibility [in being commissioned]" - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"I write the poems that insist on being made." - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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"Read. Read poems. That's the best advice I can give [to a novice writer]" - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival #poetry
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"It's fun! The whole form thing." - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival #poetry #advice
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"What do I have to say that hasn't already been said? Have confidence that your stories are important." - Eileen #sydneywritersfestival
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Audience q: if you were a tree, what would you be?
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I'd be a plum tree. It blooms in the winter and it's yummy. - Eileen Chong #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots
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I always change my answer. What's that tree? That one. I like that one. - Eric Avery #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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#winetime #poetry #auspoetry #redroomcompany #plantsarefriends #gardens #plants #newshoots pic.twitter.com/qYU6t9FbjX
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I don't always communicate through words, I communicate through music. - Eric Avery #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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AUDIENCE Q: can this be an event with @SydWritersFest every year? #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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I want my poetry to be on food, every biscuit tin! - Eileen Chong #sydneywritersfestival #newshoots
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@RedRoomCompany as long as the biscuits are good too and the food's not off!
— Adamaitken (@adamaitken39) May 21, 2016
[I want my poetry] In a paddock. With some horses. In an art gallery. On a mountain top. - Mark Tredinnick #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival
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We hope you have a new poetic perspective on the gardens. #newshoots #sydneywritersfestival #poetry #auspoetry
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poets writing
— Rob Cairns (@robbiepoet) May 21, 2016
for the plants--
poetsynthesis@ascesise #micropoetry @RedRoomCompany thank you "New Shoots" event just wonderful 💗💗💗