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Sara Benaim<br />
Garden: The Olden Community Garden<br />
When I began the residency, clutching a pleasingly floral notebook and an<br />
unreliable silver-inked pen, I hoped a community garden would yield<br />
inspiration both from its horticultural merits and from the chance<br />
encounters which might happen within it. Olden did not disappoint. I’ve<br />
tried to capture its atmosphere in the second poem here. During my<br />
residence I met gardeners, volunteers and visitors – and each made me<br />
think afresh about plants and poetry. Lots of chance encounters – and<br />
some, even less expected, with the flowers themselves and my nearforgotten<br />
memories of them. That’s what this first poem is about.<br />
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