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‘Passing Through’ is a poetic response to the act of moving through each site at different times; stopping and observing what or who else is passing through; but also imagining what or who else has and will.
Each site’s significance is unique to the individuals passing through, yet these physical spaces bind us and our stories, offering opportunity for connection and understanding. The small moments and stories I’ve encountered during my residency are interwoven throughout each poem, and encourage the reader/listener to meditate on their own stories and relationship with each site.
Same Croydon (part 1) and (part 2) are one poem split across two sites, Park Hill Park and Reeves Corner. Drawing inspiration from the River Wandle and the Heraclitus quote, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice…’, the poem depicts Croydon in flux. Its nature, its character, and its people. However, experimenting with the villanelle form creates some tension with this idea through rhyme and repetition. It reflects the monotonous daily grind of modern life: a life from which Croydon’s green spaces offer some respite.
‘memory, loved’ at Wandle Park Community Garden is a ‘found poem’ created from the language of memorial bench plaques in Wandle Park and Park Hill Park. The benches are story vessels, commemorating past lives whilst offering space for present and future lives to unfold. Croydon holds a miscellany of memories and stories, good and bad: the poem acknowledges and celebrates this with love.
‘water, where’s the water’ is an acute observation of Wandle Park and the River Wandle. Written in 2021, it forms the beginning of a longer piece called Tributary – my response to walking and cycling the Wandle from Croydon to Wandsworth. Every time I pass through Wandle Park, I’m gifted with an eclectic mix of scenes, which for a small park is quite remarkable. I’ve incorporated some of these scenes as extra lines, and now, much like Croydon and the Wandle, view it as an ever evolving, constantly in flux poem.
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