{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-weeds-poetry-book-paperback","title":"Ten Poems About Weeds - Poetry Book - Paperback","description":"A weed is just a plant in the wrong place – many gardeners will have said these words to themselves with a wry smile when contemplating an afternoon of pulling up nettles or digging out ground elder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis delightful pamphlet is proof – if needed – that weeds can be every bit as beautiful as the flowers we choose to cultivate in our gardens. In a poem about a variety of hawkweed, the speaker’s attention is caught by the unexpected vividness of flowers growing close to a disused gravel pit:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What is it about tiny yellow flowers?\u003cbr\u003eThe way they scatter through spring grass,\u003cbr\u003ea thin gauze of lemon magic.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom ‘Mouse-ear Hawkweed’ by Ian Humphreys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese days, we’re encouraged to make space for a few weeds in our gardens. Bees and butterflies find them irresistible, so why shouldn’t we? This lively and varied mini anthology seems to agree.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems by William Barnes, Jane Burn, Victoria Gatehouse, James Stanley Gilbert, Lorna Goodison, Ian Humphreys, L Kiew, Vernon Scannell, Anne Stevenson and Beth Winegarner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows.\u003cbr\u003ePUBLISHER:\u003cbr\u003eCandlestick Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIND:\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePAGES:\u003cbr\u003e24\u003cbr\u003eDIMENSIONS:\u003cbr\u003e137 x 210 mm","brand":"NATIONWIDE BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41798079021189,"sku":"PR427377","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/volts9781913627546_0_TSM4QJLS8IOU.jpg?v=1786165837","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/ten-poems-about-weeds-poetry-book-paperback","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}