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Garden Physic

Sylvia Legris

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English
Granta
02 August 2022
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.

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Imprint:   Granta
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   155g
ISBN:   9781783788279
ISBN 10:   1783788275
Pages:   112
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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).

Reviews for Garden Physic

'A dazzling, innovative storehouse of delight - a poetic adventure that exploresthe intimacy, attachment and passions that exist between plants andhuman beings. Legris has forged a collection that digs its fingers into thesoil, that is root-linked, green hearted, made of the earth.' - Rebecca Tams '[Legris] offers the reader a 'physic' in its archaic sense, as remedies for ailments...Bookish gardeners will delight in this playful modern-dayflorilegium' - Publisher's Weekly


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