Garden Physic
$37.37
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2022
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783788279 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783788275 |
| Author: | Sylvia Legris |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 155g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 131mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Granta Poetry |
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Critics Review
‘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 Tamás
’[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
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).
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