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If you want heaven, start in mud

~ from 'Lotus Pond' by Mark Tredinnick


Created by Red Room Poetry, this first installment of New Shoots, in collaboration with Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, celebrates and cultivates poems inspired by plants and place.

Coinciding with the 200th birthday of the Royal Botanic Garden, poets Mark Tredinnick, Eileen Chong and Eric Avery were commissioned to create "poetic pathways" now installed throughout the Garden. Linked creative learning resources also support a series of poetic workshops across these sites and others in the future.


Poetic Pathways - Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

Open the map to follow the paths and immerse yourself in the poetic garden. You can listen and read the poems as you wander. Please note that map points are approximate.

 

The New Shoots story

Listen here for New Shoots ABC RN documentary on Earshot. 
Read The Planthunter profiles by Georgina Reid below. 

 


Tamryn Bennett  |  Mark Tredinnick  |  Eileen Chong

 

Poets

Poems | Ficus: A Strangler’s Life (Strangler Fig) | A Gathered Distance | A Beatbox Choir | Tereticornis | Cedar (Toona ciliata) | Lotus Pond | Bottle Tree Buddha | Passage of Time | Banyan | Fern | Wurrungwuri, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney | Wollemi Pine | Elizabeth’s Dream

Partners & supporters

  • Royal Botanic Garden & Domain Trust

  • Eucalypt Australia

  • Australia Council for the Arts

  • Create NSW

  • Sydney Writers' Festival