Garden Physic
- Author Name: Sylvia Legris
- Publisher: New Directions
- Publication Date: 2021
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2990-6
About the Book
Combining the histories of botanical manuscripts and pharmacopeias with imagined letters between garden designers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and with playful illustrations throughout, Legris creates an idiosyncratic botanical glossolalia for her meanderings through the physical space of the garden. These luscious poems are a testament to the imbricated human relationship to plants; a radical defence of how we can utilize our ancient symbiosis with living greenery in order to live, heal, and nourish.
About the Author
Sylvia Legris's poetry collection Garden Physic was named one of CBC's Best Poetry Collections of 2021, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation (UK) and was long-listed for the 2022 Laurel Prize (UK) for a collection of poetry about nature or the environment. Her other collections include The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal, and Nerve Squall, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. She's received the Cheryl & Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence and the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her poems have appeared in many places including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Poetry, and Chicago Review.