Flora Poetica

The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse

Edited by Sarah Maguire

Chatto & Windus, 2001
First edition
ISBN 0701169222
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Near Fine
minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, age toned pages. Dustjacket very good with minor chipping and creasing (see photographs)

“Flora Poetica brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English.  Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems written in the year 2001; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry from places as far apart as Iran, New Zealand, South Africa and St Lucia.”