The Principle of Rapid Peering

Praise for Sylvia Legris'Sylvia Legris's Garden Physic is the most refreshing book of the year. These are poems inspired by plants and flowers, but we are far from "A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!". An apothecary and an alchemist, Legris shows us a dense and mysterious garden of verse, arranged in carefully cultivated harmonies: "Drip a drop in an ear to diminish an ache." Everyone should tiptoe in: there's nothing around quite like it'Graeme Richardson, The Times'Sylvia Legris's vegetal music has a sharp, cerebral edge that combines Gerard Manley Hopkins's radical, spellbinding rhythm and Marianne Moore's satirical wit . . . Sensuous, brainy and cardiovascular, Garden Physic is a cutting-edge ode to plants, teeming with human knowledge and natural mystery, accompanied by gem-like illustrations by the poet'Kit Fan, Guardian'Fizzing with ecological intent . . . An impressive achievement - one facilitated by the poet's singular, "wild-thoughted" vocabulary'Isabel Galleymore, Times Literary Supplement