Led By The Nose
A Garden of Smells
Published on 30. November 2002
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-285-63653-8 (ISBN)
Description
Practical and poetic, this is a beautifully written account of a year in Jenny Joseph's Gloucestershire garden through the different smells of each month's plants. The book is as much a diary of her life and the events of her year. The book is full of diversions and written in an informal, chatty tone of voice that will enchant her readers. The book is designed to be read by gardeners and we provide appendices of plants with particularly evocative smells that can be planted with advice on how to care for them. In this book you will not only smell the roses but every other plant Jenny Joseph grows, and whose gardening plan is here to follow.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
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Trade binding
ISBN-13
978-0-285-63653-8 (9780285636538)
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01/2012
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Souvenir Press Ltd
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Persons
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.