Poet John Davies - aka Shedman ? has been penning poems from a specially built wooden garden shed inside the Booth Museum of Natural History in Hove, as part of the celebrations for national Architecture Week, June 24-30.
The shed is one of eight mini-residencies for writers in odd architectural locations funded by Southern & South East Arts and resulting from a national competition to propose ways of linking architecture and literature in an imaginative way. John is inspired by garden sheds, railway sheds, shedding tears and shedding light, and his recently published collection of poems, ?The Nutter in the Shrubbery?, is a tribute to the genre. Other shed-based artists have included Mozart, who composed part of The Magic Flute in one, and Virginia Woolf who wrote in one.