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Something like a &#8216;morose root&#8217;, &#8216;cream cinquefoil&#8217;, or &#8216;bohemian and sozzled with nostalgia&#8217;?In Garden Physic, Sylvia Legris&#8217;s glinting studies on flora &#8211; mariner&#8217;s root, throatwort, wild rocket, cuckoo point &#8211; create an abundant and fluorescent vegetal mesh.Combining the histories of botanical manuscripts and pharmacopeias with imagined letters between garden designers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and playful illustrations throughout, Legris creates an idiosyncratic botanical glossolalia for her meanderings through the physical space of the garden.These luscious poems are a testament to the imbricated human relationship to plants; a radical defence of how we can utilize our ancient symbiosis with living greenery in order to live, heal, and nourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Garden Physic&#8217; 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&#8217;s book deploys humour, deep intellect, and a fanatical obsession with the potential of language, punching through the cliches of contemporary nature writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[343],"product_tag":[4289,2896,394,344,2841],"class_list":{"0":"post-95255","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-classics-plays-poetry","6":"product_tag-gardening-flowers","7":"product_tag-gardening-plants","8":"product_tag-poetry","9":"product_tag-poetry-by-individual-poets","10":"product_tag-the-environment","11":"pa_book_author-legris-sylvia","12":"pa_cover-paperback","13":"pa_dewey-811-6-edition23","14":"pa_imprint-granta-poetry","15":"pa_language-english","16":"pa_pages-8229","17":"pa_publisher-granta-poetry","18":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","20":"first","21":"onbackorder","22":"taxable","23":"shipping-taxable","24":"purchasable","25":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Garden Physic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"how to write about flowers without the nauseating sentimental phraseology? 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