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Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells Main Edition
Author(s): Jenny Joseph (Author), Lydia Coventry (Illustrator), Yvonne Skargon (Illustrator)
- Publisher: Souvenir Press
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2002
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0285636537
- ISBN-13: 9780285636538
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The poet’s sensitivity comes through in the details… for those who want to evoke similar Proustian memories. — ‘Sunday Times’, November 24th 2002
this year’s most unusual gardening book, Led By The Nose, describing a year in her garden by its smells. —
‘The Times’, November 23rd 2002About the Author
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.
