FLORA POETICA: THE CHATTO BOOK OF BOTANICAL VERSE (PB)

This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English from around the world, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions. Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems of the twenty-first century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry. Sarah Maguire brings her extensive horticultural knowledge to bear on all the poems, arranging them into botanical families, identifying the plants being written about and writing a fascinating introduction, making this the perfect gift for for poetry lovers, gardeners and botanists alike.