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Led By The Nose Yvonne Skargon

Led By The Nose By Yvonne Skargon

Led By The Nose by Yvonne Skargon


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Summary

Through sharp observations and sensually aware poetry, Joseph captures the smells and senses of her English garden in this month-by-month memoir.

Led By The Nose Summary

Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Yvonne Skargon

In this month-by-month memoir, poet Jenny Joseph captures the smells and senses of her English garden. This unconventional viewpoint is expressed through Joseph's sharp observations and the sensual awareness in her poetry, combined with the energy of her descriptive writing. Also reflected is a sense of humor that sends up those in society who make one anxious about failing to live as the trendsetters dictate. Full of delicious diversions that lead readers off the straight and narrow path to smell the roses, this is a fascinating glimpse of a poet's daily and eccentric life. Not since Laurie Lee or Flora Thompson has a writer captured the smells and moods of the English countryside in the manner of Jenny Joseph's Led By The Nose. The nation's favourite poet has tended her rural slum in the Cotswolds for decades and her calendar of a year in her garden grows into an evocation of a personality that is uniquely literary, often leading the reader off her garden path with the sharply sly humour of her famous old woman who wears purple. Jenny Joseph's memoir of a year in her garden through the sense of smell captures the feel of each month, as well as the flow of the gardening year (the chores to be done, the joy as your garden blossoms). The calendar of a year in her garden displays a personality that is eccentrically loveable, a wilful personality with her own individual outlook on life. The book's unfolding of Jenny Joseph's personality is just one of its many delights. Jenny Joseph focuses on the sense of smell, powerfully evoking memories and images that only a writer of her originality and perception could capture in the full range of thoughts and feelings a garden can stir in us. As one critic has said of Jenny Joseph's work: Her back garden, like Emily Dickinson's, has room for most of what one can imagine about the world. Led By The Nose has the unconventional viewpoint, sensual awareness and sharpness of observation to make it a classic of English writing.

Led By The Nose Reviews

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 * . *

Additional information

GOR002326468
9780285636958
0285636952
Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Yvonne Skargon
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Profile Books Ltd
20040317
208
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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