New Shoots commissioned award-winning poets Mark Tredinnick, Eileen Chong and Eric Avery to create “poetic pathways” that map the Garden.

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Please note that the map points are approximations. 

New Shoots workshops, learning resources, events and anthologies also support ongoing poetic activities at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and other Gardens nationally.

You’re invited to share your plant-inspired poem with us.

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To continue growing the poetic garden, a New Shoots interactive platform is being developed to nurture botanical poems. You can contribute your plant-themed poetry to share.

All poetry will appear on this branch of the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney website. You will receive an email when your poetry is published.

The New Shoots Poetry Anthology collects a garden of poems that has rambled and blossomed since first being planted in 2016.

To commemorate the poets and the plants, fields and forests that inspired them, the New Shoots Poetry Anthology gathers 163 poems from 105 poets. Embedded in the roots of language, the word ‘anthology’ literally means ‘a gathering of flowers’, the first literary usage of the word dating back to late ninth century Greece. In every sense, the New Shoots Anthology can be seen as something of a bouquet, arranged with an assortment of poetic blooms in all colours, moods and shapes.