Following our poetry walks at the Bristol Botanic Garden back in May, the IsamBards were invited to lead some more during the Bee Festival last weekend.
Hastily we dug out our poems that mentioned bees and other pollinators, and wrote a few more to supplement them. All set.
The heavens opened between the two walks on Saturday, resulting in fewer listeners for our second walk on Saturday afternoon, which also clashed with a guided tour of the garden.
And yet, in a blatant contravention of all the known laws of poetry readings, we actually gathered more listeners as we proceeded around the garden. Much like a stone does moss. Or a tree trunk fungi.
... even if some of the poems were about how much worse EVERYTHING will be without pollinators.
Talking of which, after I'd shared my lunch with this robin and before the afternoon walk, I wandered around the garden photographing them.
Postscript: Here is the article!
Photo by Alex Turner for The Guardian
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