{"product_id":"9780349018720","title":"Poems For Gardeners","description":"Author: Germaine Greer\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349018720\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 Jan 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarianne 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection of poems, culled from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century, includes perennial favourites such as \u003cb\u003eMarvell's 'The Garden'\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eFrost's 'After Apple-picking'\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRoethke's famous greenhouse lyrics\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as surprises like \u003cb\u003eTennyson's anti-botanical 'Amphion' \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eFleur Adcock's 'Emblem' \u003c\/b\u003eon the mating of slugs, not to mention small masterpieces like \u003cb\u003ePhilip Larkin's 'Cut Grass'\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ePhoebe Hesketh's 'Death of a Gardener'\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoems for Gardeners\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46491598028958,"sku":"ADS-9780349018720","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349018720.jpg?v=1770594756","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349018720","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}