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Led By The Nose
Jenny Joseph
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Sachbuch / Natur: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke
Beschreibung
Jenny Joseph was no ordinary poet - and Led by the Nose is no ordinary memoir. Shaped around the smells of the English countryside, it is full of the wilful personality and the sly humour that characterised the purple-clad old woman in her iconic poem 'Warning'. Joseph's eccentricities permeate each chapter as she flows through the gardening year with its chores and blossoms, frequently leading the reader off the garden path to stop, smell the roses, and ignore the world for a while.
Full of the sensual awareness of Jenny Joseph's poetry, Led by the Nose is a singular memoir: a work of delicious diversion and literary flair, horticultural anxieties and countercultural tendencies, providing a glimpse - or sniff - of the landscape of this treasured poet's life.
Rezensionen
This book would make a good present for a thoughtful, sensitive gardener, especially an elderly one who is tempted both to wear purple and to pick flowers in other people'
A gardening book for the literary-minded.
A treat for the sensual gardener.
Combining the knowledge of a seasoned gardener with the writing power of a poet
You may not think that you know the work of Jenny Joseph, but you do. She is the author of 'Warning: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple' - once voted the nation's favourite poem and a worldwide bestseller. Now she has written this year'
If you have had enough of gaudy melon flowers, try the poet Jenny Joseph's little paperback, <i>Led by the Nose: A Garden of Smells</i>. It will give you just the right shot of romantic Englishness as you sniff your way through the author'
This little book, covering a year in her own garden, is much more than an account of what borders she dug and when she planted her sweet peas ... the poet'
<i>Led by the Nose </i>looks and feels like the perfect present for a favourite gardening aunt. Small and chunky, beautifully illustrated with darkly floral woodcuts by Yvonne Skargon, it charts the changing seasons in Jenny Joseph's "rural slum"
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