Led By The Nose by Jenny Joseph
Through sharp observations and sensually aware poetry, Joseph captures the smells and senses of her English garden in this month-by-month memoir.
A gardening book for the literary-minded-- Woman’s Hour * Radio 4 *
The poet's sensitivity comes through in the details... for those who want to evoke similar Proustian memories. -- . * Sunday Times *
A treat for the sensual gardener. -- Alan Titchmarsh * Daily Express *
You may not think that you know the work of Jenny Joseph, but you do. She is the author of 'Warning: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple' - once voted the nation's favourite poem and a world-wide best-seller. Now she has written this year's most unusual gardening book, Led By The Nose. -- The Times * . *
The poet's sensitivity comes through in the details... for those who want to evoke similar Proustian memories. -- . * Sunday Times *
A treat for the sensual gardener. -- Alan Titchmarsh * Daily Express *
You may not think that you know the work of Jenny Joseph, but you do. She is the author of 'Warning: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple' - once voted the nation's favourite poem and a world-wide best-seller. Now she has written this year's most unusual gardening book, Led By The Nose. -- The Times * . *
Jenny Joseph was born in 1932 in Birmingham, England. She won a scholarship to read English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford, coming top of her year. She published her first collection of poetry, The Unlooked-for Season, in 1960, which went on to win the Eric Gregory Award. Joseph's most famous poem, 'Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple', first appeared in her 1974 collection Rose in the Afternoon. It has remained popular ever since and was voted Britain's favourite modern poem in a 2006 BBC poll. In 1995 Joseph won the Forward Prize for her poem 'In Honour of Love' and her experimental fiction work Persephone won the 1986 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. Jenny Joseph died in 2018, aged 85. Lydia Coventry is an illustrator, designer and maker who works across various mediums from pen and ink drawings and graphic illustration to jewellery and paper craft. She studied Illustration at the University of Plymouth and lives in London. Follow her on Instagram @lydiacoventry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780285636958 |
| ISBN 10 | 0285636952 |
| Title | Led By The Nose |
| Author | Jenny Joseph |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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