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'A dazzling, innovative storehouse of delight - a poetic adventure that exploresthe intimacy, attachment and passions that exist between plants andhuman beings. Legris has forged a collection that digs its fingers into thesoil, that is root-linked, green hearted, made of the earth.' - Rebecca Tams '[Legris] offers the reader a 'physic' in its archaic sense, as remedies for ailments...Bookish gardeners will delight in this playful modern-dayflorilegium' - Publisher's Weekly

A dazzling, innovative storehouse of delight - a poetic adventure that explores the intimacy, attachment and passions that exist between plants and human beings. Legris has forged a collection that digs its fingers into the soil, that is root-linked, green hearted, made of the earth. -- Rebecca Tamas [Legris] offers the reader a physic in its archaic sense, as remedies for ailments... Bookish gardeners will delight in this playful modern-day florilegium * Publisher's Weekly * 'In this bright, blazing book of poems, Sylvia Legris throws language into new and revelatory relations ... Garden Physic brings to the ecological poem a language lush enough to be arrested by, to be changed by, to get lost in. I adore it' * Sean Hewitt * 'Using florid language and poetic verse, Garden Physic revels in the pleasures of nature, weather and colour' * CBC * 'Garden Physic is the author's best book in a so-far stellar career' * Winnipeg Free Press *

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Sylvia Legris is a critically acclaimed Canadian poet. She is the recipient of the Griffin Prize for poetry, and has previously published one collection with New Directions, The Hideous Hidden (2016).

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