A Garden Manifesto democracy and what I cherished

and what I cherished

at creepers that conquer leftover spaces between high-rises and motorways

first to be burned at the stake for sodomy

letting his body do the talking

heirloom and clonal trees

A Garden Manifesto democracy and what I cherishedWhat do gardens mean and how can they change the world? A Garden Manifesto gathers radical visions rooted in the earth from artists, writers, gardeners and activists, among them Lubaina Himid, Derek Jarman, Jamaica Kincaid, Ana Mendieta, Dan Pearson and Eileen Myles. Its a seed box for an uncertain future, packed with anarchic dreams of Eden making and humming with resistance to the colonial project of homogenisation and destruction.