Marc Hamer

Seed to Dust (eBook, ePUB)

A mindful, seasonal tale of a year in the garden
Illustrator: Ashworth, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2021*

'A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden' Daily Mail

Beautifully illustrated, Seed to Dust is a reflective and restorative account of a life lived in harmony with nature.

Marc Hamer has nurtured the same twelve acres of garden for decades. It's rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets. But it's not his garden, and his relationship with its owner is at once distant and curiously intimate.

In Seed to Dust, Marc takes us month-by-month through his experiences both working in the garden and outside it. We encounter new plants and wildlife, gardening folklore and the joys of manual work; we learn, too, about Marc's path from homelessness to family contentment, and the cycles of change that run through both the garden's life and our own.

'An absorbing combination of memoir, gardening folklore and natural history' Country Life

'Life-affirming... Absorbing' Sue Stuart-Smith, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Well-Gardened Mind

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473574960
• Artikelnr.: 59192587

Autorenporträt

Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales over thirty years ago. After spending a period homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art in Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener. Both his books, A Life in Nature; or How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust have been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 
January 
White 
Beginnings 
Peppered Moth 
February 
Returning 
Ice 
Jasmine 
Another Gardener 
Climbing Hydrangea 
A Story 
Cyclops 
Code-breaker 
Wood Pigeon 
The Old North 
‘I’m Here, Are You There?’ 
She Needs a Stick 
March 
Grass Sprouts, Trees Bud 
Cosmos 
March Frost 
Pruning Roses 
Snow 
Peonies 
Potatoes Rattle in a Pan 
Cherry Buds Appear 
The Middle Way 
Sparrows Begin to Nest 
Bees 
Daffodils 
Narcissus—Are You There? 
Minotaur 
April 
Distant Thunder 
A Vase of Cherries 
Dahlias 
Girlish 
Love Is . . . 
The Window Cleaner 
Tulpen 
Swifts Arrive 
Song 
World Sings 
A Broken Heart 
Mouse 
Mowing in the Rain 
Floating Islands 
May 
Peonies Bloom 
Gulls Rip Grass 
Holy Thorn 
Mercedes 
An Endless Stream of Days 
Fossils 
Night Scents 
Burning Books 
Sun! 
Heart 
Maybug 
Rain, No Rain 
June 
A Dumb Labourer Visits 
A New Path 
Cold Returns 
Solstice 
In Your Garden 
A Round of Applause 
Aphids 
July 
Stoics 
Wabi-sabi 
Pelargoniums 
Flying Ants Day 
Swifts Leave 
Pine Cones 
Carp 
Green Flames 
August 
Cofiwch Dryweryn (Coffee-ookh Dre-weh-rin) 
Umbellifers 
Fountain 
Cats and Dogs 
Distant Sounds 
Pond Scum 
Laurels 
A Break 
Gathering Seeds 
September 
The Waste Land 
‘Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird’ 
The Many-Forking Path 
Colchicums 
Scything the Meadow 
Autumn Equinox 
October 
Go Now, Bonnie Boy 
October Mist 
Birthday 
Whisky 
Molecatcher 
Our Lady of the Flowers 
Apples 
First Snow 
November 
Hop-tu-Naa 
Frost 
Anemone to Zantedeschia 
The Great Riddle of the Self 
Haiku 
Gipsies 
The Lily Gardens 
Lifting Dahlias 
Leaving 
December 
We Barely Spoke, I Tell Myself . . . 
Back to Work 
The Floating World 
Home 
Flowers 
Postscript and Acknowledgements