Mixed Borders

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Hellebore What skirts of watered silk, wild-green and rose, shimmer within the forest of your leaves, shy of the light, guarding their colour close, striving to be distinct, to be believed? A head so heavy on a stem so slight. Bruised colour, shades prefigured by the night. Why do you conjure flowers of despair, turned from the sun, desperate to hide? Why do your petals, drawn towards the air, close when they sense the stricken heart inside? If you had words, if simple words could frame feeling, distilled, yours Hellebore, is ‘shame’. Lift your head up. Look at the sudden sky. Colour as dancer: these are the Northern Lights. This is your palette, hanging but hanging high. The dome of the world is on fire, achingly bright. Think of this sky. Think of how darkness glows. Take it, that longed-for pride, Lenten Rose. 24
Hilaire Garden: Morden Hall Park My residency turned out to be more virtual than actual. The garden I’d requested, Morden Hall Park, withdrew from the Open Garden Squares Weekend, while still expressing an interest in hosting a poet-in-residence. I’ve been in contact with the park but we’ve yet to set up anything concrete. I have, however, researched the history of the park and the River Wandle, which runs through it. I’ve thought about my connection to London’s green spaces, how vital these places are, and how I get to enjoy them for free. I’ve sat in the herb maze of my community roof garden and mused on my lack of practical gardening skills. I’ve plundered plant encyclopaedias for amusing or evocative names. And I’ve pondered the similarities between writing a poem and growing a plant from seed. I’m hoping for a show of late blooms. 25
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Page 3 and 4: Mixed Borders Poems from the London
Page 5 and 6: ? Introduction - 7 Ann Perrin - 11
Page 7 and 8: ! HOW DID OUR GARDEN GROW? You plan
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Page 11 and 12: Ann Perrin Garden: Postman’s Park
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Page 15 and 16: Some read their poems there and the
Page 17 and 18: Pop-up garden in Canning Town For L
Page 19 and 20: Clarissa Aykroyd Garden: Red Cross
Page 21 and 22: Ellen Cranitch Garden: Christchurch
Page 23: The Acer and the Agapanthus The Ace
Page 27 and 28: Garden Swap Shop Who’ll swap comm
Page 29 and 30: Ian McEwen Garden: Arlington Square
Page 31 and 32: The Symmetry Breakfast Song Bilater
Page 33 and 34: John Grant Garden: Osterley House G
Page 35 and 36: Garden Poems A garden enclosed is m
Page 37 and 38: Julia Bird Garden: Nomura Internati
Page 39 and 40: A GUIDE TO THE ELEMENTS 1. Water Th
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Page 43 and 44: three: the birds of prey in charge
Page 45 and 46: Mary Dickins Garden: St Mary’s Se
Page 47 and 48: What it takes? It took struggle and
Page 49 and 50: Chilli Pepper Rap We’re red hot c
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Page 53 and 54: Natalie Shaw Garden: Fenton House G
Page 55 and 56: Penny Hope Garden: Red House Garden
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Page 59 and 60: The neighbour's cat, nameless intru
Page 61 and 62: Roomates (at Bunhill Fields) Sure,
Page 63 and 64: Sara Benaim Garden: The Olden Commu
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Page 69 and 70: Perennial Cornflours in the Barbica
Page 71 and 72: She is the nest’s thought weaving
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Churchyard Birds For centuries, roo
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William Henry Barrett Garden: Eastb
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Galencials 79
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