Looking for Poets

Mar 19, 2025

Would you like to have a poem you’ve written be read (and listened to) from a bench in a beautiful nature setting along the Milburn Creek Trail in Battersea?

What started as an art installation in the Wild Art Walk —an Art Show on a Forest Trail that happens in October in Battersea, the Poetry Bench is a place to take a moment to sit and watch the otters or the swans on Milburn Pond, and read a poem by an area poet featured in a wooden book that is attached to the bench.

With a qr code scan you can also listen to the poem being read by the poet. Each month the book and audio feature a new poem by a different poet. October and November had Sarah Wiseman and Carolyn Smart’s poems appear. There was a break over the winter but from now on each month you can enjoy a poem sequentially by Anne Archer, Sarah Brown, and others, maybe you!

If you are interested in sharing your poetry here, please inquire at wildartwalk@gmail.com and put Poetry Bench in the subject line.