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 twentyfirst century, includes perennial favourites such as Marvells The Garden and Frosts After Applepicking and Roethkes famous greenhouse lyrics, as well as surprises like Tennysons antibotanical 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. Poems for Gardeners can be read along with the seed catalogues in the dead of winter, or in the gaps between tasks on a busy day in spring, or between snoozes in the hammock in the deep midsummer.

Binding: Hardback;272 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: DSC; Weight: 498 g; Dimensions: 205 x 135 x 25

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