CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• SHIRLEY CHEW

POETRY

• MADELEINE LEE, Beauty
• ANNE LEE TZU PHENG, Tree of Life
• ELEANORWONG, Eco Fall, Standley’s Chasm

FICTION

• MARINA LEWYCKA, Extract from Various Pets Alive and Dead

ARTICLES

• NIGEL P. TAYLOR, Gardens and Empire: The Singapore Botanic Gardens as an example
• STEPHEN BENDING, Pleasure Gardens and the Problems of Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century England
• CHANDRAVA CHAKRAVARTY, Babu Culture: The Garden and Garden House in Colonial Bengal
• ELIZABETH COOK, ‘The world’s worst gardener since Cain’: The Poet as Horticulturist
• LIM LEE CHING, A Mightier Silence: The Garden and Natural Morality in the Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer
• ANGELA FRATTAROLA, Community Gardens or Affordable Housing: A False Dichotomy Grows in the Lower East Side
• OLIVIA DJAWOTO, Magic in the Manufactured: Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
• MAX FARRAR, A Memorial Garden for David Oluwale
• LINDA FRANCE, The Oldest Botanic Garden in the World: Padua

REVIEWS

• by LUCY ARNOLD, and VICTORIA YEE WEI WEN

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS