Ten Poems About Herbs tinder or hearing of Africa and

or hearing of Africa and the Romans in Scotland

“I don’t believe I’ll read any work this year with more memorable characters than those in Country of Warm Snow

Drayton is both Renaissance man and man of resentment

’ – Adam Thorpe

both in their extremities of grief and their urgent hope

Ten Poems About Herbs tinder or hearing of Africa andWe love herbs for their fragrance and for their taste. They can be food or medicine or perfume. In these beguiling poems, it seems that herbs have other powers too; they can remind us of the past and they can make us think of love sometimes both at the same time: For the cold will come, though you turn to me soon, Your eyes going serious green from hazel, Your quick hand on my face the scent of basil. from Basil by Gibbons Ruark Elsewhere we encounter