{"product_id":"9781446413111","title":"Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions. Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems of the twenty-first century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are thirty poems about roses, by poets as diverse as Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker and the South African, Seitlhamo Motsapi; but there are also sections devoted to more unusual plants such as the mandrake, the starapple and the tamarind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ex-gardener, the celebrated poet Sarah Maguire brings her extensive horticultural knowledge to bear on all the poems, arranging them into botanical families, identifying the plants being written about and writing a fascinating introduction. Whether you are a poetry lover, a gardener, a botanist, or simply the purchaser of the occasional bunch of flowers, this unique anthology allows you to luxuriate amidst the world's flora.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128455348464,"sku":"9781446413111","price":21.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781446413111_p0.jpg?v=1763826280","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781446413111","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}