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Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus; New edition edition (1 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701169230
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701169237
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 517,276 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`As entrancing as the lost gardens of Heligan' --London Review of Books

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This anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English: 14th-century lyrics sit next to poems of the 21st century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry from further afield. There are 30 poems about roses, by poets as diverse as Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker and the South African, Seitlhamo Motsapi; but there are also sections devoted to more unusual plants such as the mandrake, the starapple and the tamarind. An ex-gardener, the poet Sarah Maguire brings her extensive botanical knowledge to bear on all the poems, arranging them into botanical families, identifying the plants being written about and writing an introduction about how the history of flowers goes hand in hand with the history of English poetry.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful anthology offering a new reading of flower poetry, 5 Dec 2001
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This is a beautifully presented anthology offers a new reading of botanical poetry. The intelligent, comprehensible introduction includes an examination of the impact of colonialism on the flora and fauna of the world and subsequently on the way in which poets (and their readers) describe, represent and understand flowers. The choice of poems included has been done in a way which reflects the diversity of the flora and poets to be found in the English speaking world. Dividing the chapters by botanical group rather than by chronology or country means that beautiful contemporary poetry from South Africa sits alongside a poem by John Clare, both extolling the virtues of the rose. Marvellous juxtapositions abound and all the poems I have read so far have been top-class.
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