Poems For Gardeners

Germaine Greer

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Virago
14 January 2025

Poetry; Literary studies: poetry & poets

Marianne Moore said that the poet's job was to depict 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them'. In truth, gardens are always imaginary because they are always the garden that you are aiming for rather than the garden you have, but the toads are real and immediate.' So says Germaine Greer in this wonderful anthology.

This collection of poems, culled from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century, includes perennial favourites such as Marvell's 'The Garden' and Frost's 'After Apple-picking' and Roethke's famous greenhouse lyrics, as well as surprises like Tennyson's anti-botanical 'Amphion' and Fleur Adcock's 'Emblem' on the mating of slugs, not to mention small masterpieces like Philip Larkin's 'Cut Grass' and Phoebe Hesketh's 'Death of a Gardener'.

Poems for Gardeners can be read along with the seed catalogues in the dead of winter, or in the gaps between tasks on a busy day in spring, or between snoozes in the hammock in the deep midsummer.

By: Germaine Greer
Imprint: Virago
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9780349018720
ISBN 10: 0349018723
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 14 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Germaine Greer is a writer, academic, critic and public intellectual. She has written over 20 books and is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of our time. Her bestselling titles include The Female Eunuch and The Whole Woman.