Overview
A celebration of greenery in its many wondrous forms and in every changeable season from rushes to sedge, wild oats to hemp—and we find it shivering with life and beauty. This is florilegium as devotional text, a botanical catalogue of great artistic ambition.CAL FLYN, WriterThe diversity of grasses is so important and is being remembered just as it''s being lost. I loved this beautiful collaborationAMY LIPTROT, WriterThere''s a lot to enjoy and it''s not to be rushed, informative as well as a joy to the senses.ELEANOR MACLEOD, RangerFull of everyday riches. I will try to overcome my plant blindness, and look not at grass, but the grasses!KEN COCKBURN, Poet and translatorThe collaboration is utterly beautiful. The two are equal partners and symbiotic. Each is augmented by the other and converses with it.JOHN GLENDAY, PoetIt''s a delightful and deep curation, a reverence indeed.ROB MCGUIRE, PoetA luminous shaft of hope.RISSA DE LA PAZ, FacilitatorI cannot see Carex echinata without these lines popping into my head!JOHN CROSSLEY, Botanist
The beautiful clarity of focus in this book will ground you, encouraging you to stop and listen to the grass growing. A verdant gathering intended to calm and restore. Spend time among the grasses and walk on with a heightened awareness of this overlooked yet vital plant family.
- | Author: Valerie Gillies
- | Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
- | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2025
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781804252413
- | ISBN-10: 1804252417