TEN POEMS ABOUT GARDENS (CANDLESTICK PRESS)

Both for the green-fingered and the willing admirer who nonetheless doesn’t know their trowel from their hoe. Like the gardens they describe, these poems range between formality and informality, elegance and sweet-scented shades of mystery. “Read them and go out and garden the better for it” - Monty Don, from his introduction. Poems by Vikram Seth, Ann Drysdale, Henry Constable, Richard Church, Robert Louis Stevenson, Maura Dooley, Louise Glück, Robin Robertson, Barbara Daniels, Katherine Mansfield.