Over most of 2017, I got to work with some amazing Australian poets. These photos are from the New Shoots Victoria launch event during the Melbourne Writers Festival in September. The poems are planted indefinitely in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

Poet Chris Wallace Crabbe AM with his poem ‘At the Tandicals’ in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

An excerpt from ‘At the Tandicals’ by poet Chris Wallace Crabbe AM in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Cameron Lowe in the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

Poets Tamryn Bennett and Bruce Pascoe wandering the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Ryan Prehn reading his poem in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe reading his poetry in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe reading his poetry in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Ryan Prehn reading his poem in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Chris Wallace Crabbe AM with his poem ‘At the Tandicals’ in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Duncan Hose with his poem ‘Golden Bogey’ in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Carissa Lee Godwin with her poem ‘Arms of a Friend’ in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Bonny Cassidy reading her poetry in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Duncan Hose reading his poetry in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Duncan Hose reading his poetry in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Ryan Prehn with his poem ‘Remnant’ in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Excerpt from ‘Grounds’ by poet Bonny Cassidy in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

An excerpt from ‘Floral Axis’ by Autumn Royal in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Autumn Royal reading her poem in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

Poet Chris Wallace Crabbe AM with his poem ‘At the Tandicals’ in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria

An excerpt of ‘Remnant’ by poet Ryan Prehn