Poems For Gardeners - Germaine Greer

Marianne Moore Said That The Poets 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. This Collection Of Poems, Culled From Classical Antiquity To The Twenty-first Century, Includes Perennial Favourites Such As Marvells 'the Garden' And Frosts 'after Apple-picking' And Roethkes Famous Greenhouse Lyrics, As Well As Surprises Like Tennysons Anti-botanical 'amphion' And Fleur Adcocks 'emblem' On The Mating Of Slugs, Not To Mention Small Masterpieces Like Philip Larkins 'cut Grass' And Phoebe Heskeths 'death Of A Gardener'.