The Star-Nosed Mole

An Anthology of Scented Garden Writing

The Star-Nosed Mole
Isabel Bannerman
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Hardback
h230 x 170mm - 144pg
23 Sep 2021 UK
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9781910258453
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After publishing Scent Magic, an acclaimed memoir of plants, gardens and scent, Isabel Bannerman couldn' t leave the subject alone. ' I came across the star-nosed mole, an adorable and preposterous creature with a highly specialized sensory-motor organ, while writing about the riches of the soil kingdom . . . and, somewhat mole-like . . . as I was trying to write about the impossibility of writing effectively about smell, I began to nose around for great writers' solutions to this problem. How and how much have writers considered the lilies of the field and how they smell. I began grazing on literature and gathering in my stores of quotes. ' In reviews of Scent Magic, Isabel was lauded for ' putting into words what so much escapes language. With a wonderful range of reference and allusion, it' s nothing less than poetry. . . (Evening Standard)' . And in this anthology, with her beautifully written linking passages bringing carefully chosen quotations together with her dramatic, powerful and mysterious plant images, she evokes the scented garden through poetry and prose spanning millennia, from Ovid to Proust, Milton to George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson to Alice Oswald.
' This has to be one of the most beautifully written pieces I have read in a long time . . . it brings to mind the writing of Vita Sackville-West. Illustrated with gorgeous garden photography by the author and many of Isabel' s striking botanical portraits. ' * Gardens Illustrated * ' Part diary and part practical guide to perfumed plants, illustrated with [the author' s] own photographs, it is a dream of a book, wandering off down scented pathways of memories, moods and moments past. ' * The Sunday Times - Gardening Book of the Year * ' This is a beautiful and moving book, something to linger over, to cherish. ' * The New York Times Book Review *
Garden designer Isabel Bannerman and her husband, Julian, have won Gold Medals at Chelsea and designed gardens for a wide range of people, including HRH The Prince of Wales and many clients from the worlds of fashion and film. They also designed the British 9/11 Memorial Garden in New York. Isabel has always taken photographs and she began making her particular style of botanical scans in 2003. She has had four solo shows of her work, which is in collections including those of of Jasper Conran and Richard E. Grant. She wrote and photographed Landscape Of Dreams (Pimpernel Press, 2016), describing fourteen of the many gardens the Bannermans have created. Her second book, Scent Magic, was published by Pimpernel Press in 2019.
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ISBN-13: 9781910258453
Published: 23 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pimpernel Press
Publisher: Pimpernel Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 230mm
Width: 170mm
Pages: 144

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