A variety of poetry has been used in presentations of Community Centred Knowledge Workshops and presentations.

Poetry or Spoken word, especially when emphatically delivered, is often a potent communicator of ideas, especially where key phrases are remembered and recalled powerfully.

Here are a sample below, beginning with one of the first used at the very first Food Journey at the Garden Museum, in 2014. Written by Mama D and delivered by a group of collaborating activists, the ‘My Seed’ spoken word piece, in part, or in its entirety, has been used time and time again as a part of CCK’s subsequent offerings:

My Seed
I am an indigene, of the marginal lands.
I am an artefact, of your constructs.
My whole anatomy has been divided up, you see
Quite arbitrarily
Reclassified: into flower, stem and shoot,
Mind and body, Soul and root.
Reclassified: Into class, gender and race
Allotted different kinds of space
But I am who I am! 
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This poem, written by Mama D, introduces our piece on the Ecological Imaginary. In thi, we explore the ways in which origins are understood and traced across historical time and space. The workshop itself is based upon a series of lyrical pieces joined by an intertwining soundscape, which helps it to become a complete experience together with its multisensory elements.

Tracing our nourishment
Wouldn’t it be glorious if we could eat from places where a species actually had a centre of biodiversity?Would it be nice or just out of the ordinary?
Would it be extraordinary or actually revolutionary?
What would it mean to eat, not from where popular media says that food…

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