Garden Physic

Synopsis

A strange and beautiful celebration of the garden, Garden Physic gathers poems inspired by plants, flowers, weeds, herbs, and the creatures that inhabit them. Sylvia Legris maps the garden as both body and landscape, combining botanical and anatomical language in poems of compressed, exuberant invention.

Drawing on everything from the correspondence of garden designers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson to the paintings of Agnes Martin and the medicinal writings of the ancient Greek pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides, Legris creates a richly layered poetic world. From muskeg and backyard to rainworm, horsetail, and fern, Garden Physic finds wonder, mystery, and healing in the natural world.

About the Author

Sylvia Legris is a Canadian poet born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her collections include The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal, and Nerve Squall, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. Garden Physic was named one of the best poetry books of the year by The Times and CBC/Radio-Canada. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Publisher

New Directions

Publication Date

November 2, 2021

Format

Paperback

Pages

112

Subjects

Poetry · Nature & Ecology · Plants & Gardens · Art & Ideas · Women Poets

ISBN

9780811229906