Garden Physic (Poetry)

Garden Physic (Poetry)
Sylvia Legris
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 112pg
7 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781783788279
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Garden Physic is a radical poetic movement through plant life. With her singular line, she journeys readers through an investigation of how we articulate our ecological surrounds in language through botanical histories. With a structure that emulates the style of classic manuscripts, Legris' s book deploys humour, deep intellect, and a fanatical obsession with the potential of language, punching through the cliches of contemporary nature writing. A brief snapshot: how to write about flowers without the nauseating sentimental phraseology? No quaint, no dainty, no winsome. This smells good, that smells bad, my hands rank with manure. This at least is pure. The whole book is a glorious meditation on the garden and the power of plants: how they can heal us, emotionally and physically, and how we communicate with them.
' A dazzling, innovative storehouse of delight - a poetic adventure that explores the intimacy, attachment and passions that exist between plants and human beings. Legris has forged a collection that digs its fingers into the soil, that is root-linked, green hearted, made of the earth. ' - Rebecca Tamas ' [Legris] offers the reader a ' physic' in its archaic sense, as remedies for ailments. . . Bookish gardeners will delight in this playful modern-day florilegium' - Publisher' s Weekly
Sylvia Legris is a critically acclaimed Canadian poet. She is the recipient of the Griffin Prize for poetry, and has previously published one collection with New Directions, The Hideous Hidden (2016).
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781783788279
Published: 7 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 112

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