{"product_id":"instead-of-a-card-ten-poems-about-gardens","title":"Instead of a Card: Ten Poems about Gardens","description":"\u003cp\u003e“A greeting that not only gives great pleasure but illuminates our lives—like a message in a bottle.”\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e—Robert McCrum, writer and editor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Ten Poems about Gardens” is a title in the “Instead of a Card” series, based on the idea that sending a greeting card is a lovely gesture, and sending a booklet of poetry an even more meaningful one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem class=\"is-italic\"\u003eTen Poems about Gardens\u003c\/em\u003e is for gardeners and visitors to gardens, the green-fingered and the willing admirer who nonetheless doesn’t know their trowel from their hoe; the allotment-holder and the flower-grower. Like the gardens they describe, the poems range between formality and informality, elegance and sweet-scented shades of mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Good gardening …needs poetry to capture, measure and catalogue. …That is what this little volume does perfectly. It is a garden catalogue and a manual spelling out the really important horticultural skills. …These are all fine poems, all perfectly practical celebrations of why and how to garden. Read them with soil under your nails and to cultivate all that grows within. Read them and go out and garden the better for it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e—Monty Don, Introduction to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"is-italic\"\u003eTen Poems about Gardens\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“In the name of the bee\u003cbr\u003eAnd of the butterfly\u003cbr\u003eAnd of the breeze\u003cbr\u003eAmen.”\u003cbr\u003e—Emily Dickinson, “Untitled”\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes poems by Vikram Seth, Ann Drysdale, Henry Constable, Richard Church, Robert Louis Stevenson, Maura Dooley, Louise Glück, Robin Robertson, Barbara Daniels, and Katherine  Mansfield. Cover by Rosalind Bliss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions 5.5\" x 8.25\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Reader's Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42376384872494,"sku":"05-98074","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0891\/0192\/files\/ten-poems-about-gardens-poetry-pamphlet-front-cover.jpg?v=1779910263","url":"https:\/\/shop.nybooks.com\/products\/instead-of-a-card-ten-poems-about-gardens","provider":"The Reader's Catalog","version":"1.0","type":"link"}