Led By The Nose

Name: Led By The Nose
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781800818125
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A Garden of Smells

By Jenny Joseph

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Led By The Nose by Jenny Joseph is a delightful exploration of the scents and fragrances that define each month of the year. The author invites readers to wander through her garden as she celebrates the ever-changing aromas that accompany the seasons. This engaging narrative intertwines the sensory pleasures of gardening with thoughtful reflections on nature and life.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate the interplay between nature and the senses. It invites readers to explore the world of scents throughout each passing season, offering both poetic insights and practical gardening advice. Perfect for those who love to experience gardens with their noses and hearts, as well as their hands.

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.

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Led By The Nose is celebrated as a literary treasure for gardeners, praised for its sensory appeal and poetic charm. The book is noted for its beautiful illustrations and thoughtful reflection on the Year's changing seasons. Its unique blend of gardening expertise and poetic warmth offers a delightful, romantic journey, making it a perfect gift for gardening enthusiasts.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800818125

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 August 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Souvenir Press Ltd

Edition: Main

Illustration: b/w illustration chapter headers

Contributors:

Illustrated by Lydia Coventry
Illustrated by Yvonne Skargon

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 168g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

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.

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