Seven Poet Trees

Taken from the Seven Poet trees website

Seeding Poems

Planting Trees

We bring communities together in the London Borough of Lewisham with a mission to champion radical custodianship of care between tree, place and person. 

​Ackroyd & Harvey and Zena Edwards use Visual Art, Poetry, Performance and Sound-scaping as future-thinking tools to imagine Humanity empowered at an ecological, climate and environmental crossroads.

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Night falls in Mayow Park. A tree hovers above a pit. Join us for a powerful poetry performance by youth and community groups to celebrate its planting.

Under the night sky and in the shadow of a big tree held high from a crane, young people and residents of Lewisham will perform poems exploring the connection between human beings, trees and the people who live in the intensity of an urban environment like London.

In October 2022, three poets will work with three youth groups in Lewisham (Forest Hill School, Young Lewisham Project and Action for Refugees in Lewisham) to write poems inspired by the trees, gardens and allotments that surround where they live. They will be exploring the relationship between trees, place, and people, inspired by the history of the area which used to be covered by the Great North Wood and which has connections reaching back to Queen Elizabeth I and the colonisation of North America.

These poems will be performed at the event in Lewisham’s oldest municipal park, Mayow Park in Sydenham, alongside a radical planting and installation of a Pin Oak tree from artists Ackroyd & Harvey.

Co-Directed by Ackroyd & Harvey and Zena Edwards, sound by Isa Suarez, working with Lili K. Bright, Arji Manuelpillai, Mark ‘Mr T’ Thompson, Action For Refugees In Lewisham, Forest Hill School, Young Lewisham Project, Street Trees For Living and Apples and Snakes. Supported by Arts Council England.

To find out more about the project visit sevenpoettrees.com. 

We Are Lewisham is presented by Lewisham Council and the Albany as part of the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2022.