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Combining the histories of botanical manuscripts and pharmacopeias with imagined letters between garden designers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49546678599953,"sku":"GOR012325437","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49553892999441,"sku":"GOR012849609","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49741083377937,"sku":"NGR9781783788279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50149804867857,"sku":"GOR013871463","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52665102532881,"sku":"NLS9781783788279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53562197967121,"sku":"GOR013010909","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1783788275.jpg?v=1759226711"},{"product_id":"garden-physic-book-sylvia-legris-9780811229906","title":"Garden Physic","description":"A musical celebration of the garden, from chaff to grass, and all of its lowly weeds, herbs, and creatures","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600763035921,"sku":"GOR013537319","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613274218769,"sku":"GOR012535775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50127731392785,"sku":"CIN0811229904G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811229904.jpg?v=1750703426"},{"product_id":"principle-of-rapid-peering-book-sylvia-legris-9781472158864","title":"The Principle of Rapid Peering","description":"Self-seeding wind is a wind of ever-replenishing breath. -from 'The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering'  The title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behaviour of certain birds. 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Legris's fascination with weather, ghosts and brain disorders is the starting point for a collection of poetry that ensures you'll never look at nature the same way again. You'll find snow golems and ghost cats, and a sky filled with fish swimming the winds of a storm. And you'll find a haunted terrain where the natural world becomes an allegory for our most intimate fears.  Despite their dark and often cinematic approach, these poems are also tinged with a sly, apocalyptic wit that can't help but laugh as the sky falls.  Nerve Squall is a vital exploration of the symbiosis of storm, nerve and language, a sure-handed guide to the end of the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50381751714065,"sku":"CIN1552451607G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036540993809,"sku":"NIN9781552451601","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52686306246929,"sku":"NLS9781552451601","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1552451607.jpg?v=1751341135"},{"product_id":"principle-of-rapid-peering-book-sylvia-legris-9780811237642","title":"The Principle of Rapid Peering","description":"Self-seeding wind   is a wind of ever-replenishing breath.           —from “The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering”    The title of Sylvia Legris’ melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behavior of certain birds. 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