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S01 Episode 08: Words and gardens. With Sean Swallow
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Games & Hobbies
Gardening
Interview
Categories Via RSS |
Home & Garden
Leisure
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Mar 15, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:41:02
S01 Episode 08: Words and gardens. With Sean Swallow
 
 
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
 
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Garden soundtrack
 
Is there anything left to write about gardens?
 
The garden as a place of ideas
 
The garden as a place of activity – where ideas can flow.
 
Words as containers for thoughts and ideas
 
 
Interview with Sean Swallow
 
07:38 intro
 
07:56 from garden designer to poet
 
16:38 the garden at Scatterford
 
20:17 are gardens ineffable? Why do we bother trying to capture then in words
 
22:46 strong gardens
 
22:30 disruptive poets
 
23:40 thieving bumblebees. Carpenter bees stealing nectar by drilling through flowers https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=14120
 
24:56 Death in the garden, Poussin’s Et in arcadia ego https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_in_Arcadia_ego
 
29:40 Poems ‘strong enough to help’.
Seamus Heaney, The Redress of Poetry https://www.seamusheaney.com/the-redress-of-poetry
 
30:42 gardens reflecting the shape of thoughts
 
 
A short film of Sean, his work, and his garden
 
Sean’s garden at Scatterford on the NGS website
 
 
You can find Sean on the web at http://www.seanswallow.net and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sean_swallow/
 
 
 
Further reading on writers and gardens:
 
The Writer’s Garden: how Gardens inspired our best-loved authors
Jackie Bennett
 
 
 
 
 
 

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