Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Jenny Joseph Paperback Book

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The unusual, remarkable memoir of a treasured British poet: Jenny Joseph, author of Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, presents a year in her garden - twelve months of musings, wisdom and scents

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Jenny Joseph was no ordinary poet - and Led by the Nose is no ordinary memoir. Shaped around the smells of the English countryside, it is full of the wilful personality and the sly humour that characterised the purple-clad old woman in her iconic poem 'Warning'. Joseph's eccentricities permeate each chapter as she flows through the gardening year with its chores and blossoms, frequently leading the reader off the garden path to stop, smell the roses, and ignore the world for a while.Full of the sensual awareness of Jenny Joseph's poetry, Led by the Nose is a singular memoir: a work of delicious diversion and literary flair, horticultural anxieties and countercultural tendencies, providing a glimpse - or sniff - of the landscape of this treasured poet's life.

Author Biography

Jenny Joseph was first published in the 1950s by John Lehmann. Her first published collection, The Unlooked-for Season, won her a Cholmondeley Award and her prose and verse narrative, Persephone, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 1995 she was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship. In 2006 her poem 'Warning' was voted Britain's favourite modern poem. She had three grown-up children and lived in Gloucestershire. Jenny Joseph died in 2018, aged 85.

Review

'A gardening book for the literary-minded.' - Woman's Hour'A treat for the sensual gardener.' - Alan Titchmarsh'Led by the Nose looks and feels like the perfect present for a favourite gardening aunt. Small and chunky, beautifully illustrated with darkly floral woodcuts by Yvonne Skargon, it charts the changing seasons in Jenny Joseph's "rural slum"' - Times Literary Supplement'If you have had enough of gaudy melon flowers, try the poet Jenny Joseph's little paperback, Led by the Nose: A Garden of Smells. It will give you just the right shot of romantic Englishness as you sniff your way through the author's gardening year ... poetic, as you would expect from Joseph, but not soppy' - Stephen Anderton'Combining the knowledge of a seasoned gardener with the writing power of a poet' - Mail on Sunday

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The unusual, remarkable memoir of a treasured British poet: Jenny Joseph, author of Warning: When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, presents a year in her garden - twelve months of musings, wisdom and scents

Details ISBN1800818122 Author Lydia Coventry Pages 208 Publisher Profile Books Ltd Year 2023 ISBN-10 1800818122 ISBN-13 9781800818125 Publication Date 2023-08-03 UK Release Date 2023-08-03 Illustrator Lydia Coventry Format Paperback Imprint Souvenir Press Ltd Subtitle A Garden of Smells Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations b/w illustration chapter headers AU Release Date 2023-08-03 Edition Description Main DEWEY 635.968 Audience General NZ Release Date 2023-10-23 We've got this

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