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September 2020
Designing and producing the poetry pamphlets
I've really enjoyed designing the pamphlets. It’s been an amazing project working with poet and publisher Jenny Lewis and all the wonderful poets.
See more the about the poetry and the poets on the website.
Poet’s House Pamphlets
Planting Words at Kew Gardens
In the spring of 2011, I invited poet Jenny Lewis to work with me on a community project at Kew Gardens in conjunction with Kew Palace which we called 'Planting Words' to plant a ‘poetry garden’ round the Temple of the Imagination at Kew Gardens.
We worked with students from around the borough, first to explore the history and culture of Kew Palace and then to create books, poems and art works around the experience. This included a wonderful session in which we each had a ‘wish for the world’ and then created designs and lettering by embossing the words onto thin copper.
We each decorated a terracotta pot and planted a seed in it which carried our ‘wish for the world’. The students took home the pots to look after them until they germinated when we gathered together again and planted them out. At the same time, we attached the copper band, carrying our words and pictures, around the bottom of the Temple. In he summer when the flowers were in full bloom we met again with their families and had a picnic celebrating their talents..
This was an extraordinary project and one that we would love to repeat with other groups.
September 2020
Designing and producing the poetry pamphlets
I've really enjoyed designing the pamphlets. It’s been an amazing project working with poet and publisher Jenny Lewis and all the wonderful poets.
See more the about the poetry and the poets on the website.
Poet’s House Pamphlets
Planting Words at Kew Gardens
In the spring of 2011, I invited poet Jenny Lewis to work with me on a community project at Kew Gardens in conjunction with Kew Palace which we called 'Planting Words' to plant a ‘poetry garden’ round the Temple of the Imagination at Kew Gardens.
We worked with students from around the borough, first to explore the history and culture of Kew Palace and then to create books, poems and art works around the experience. This included a wonderful session in which we each had a ‘wish for the world’ and then created designs and lettering by embossing the words onto thin copper.
We each decorated a terracotta pot and planted a seed in it which carried our ‘wish for the world’. The students took home the pots to look after them until they germinated when we gathered together again and planted them out. At the same time, we attached the copper band, carrying our words and pictures, around the bottom of the Temple. In he summer when the flowers were in full bloom we met again with their families and had a picnic celebrating their talents..
This was an extraordinary project and one that we would love to repeat with other groups.