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Edited by Naomi Milthorpe - Contributions by Naomi Milthorpe; Rebecca Nagel; John Charles Ryan; Jessica White; Katrina Schlunke; Hannah Stark; Andrew Oldham; Carol Oldham and Judy Kendall
The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times illuminates the ways in which the garden as a real and imagined space, and gardening as a practice or ethic, is changed under extreme conditions of economic and environmental austerity.
Chapter 1. "Austerity Gardens: The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times." Naomi MilthorpeRootsChapter 2. "Sissinghurst: A Fantasy of Austerity" Rebecca NagelChapter 3. "Digging Up England: Subverting Austerity in Beverley Nichols's Merry Hall" Naomi MilthorpePlotsChapter 4. "Narratives of Nettle: Austerity, Medicinal Flora, and the Herb Garden as a Locus of Resistance." John Charles RyanChapter 5. "Gardening in the Anthropocene: Wilding, Eco-Memoir and Biodiversity." Jessica WhiteChapter 6. "Zoological Gardens, Austerity and the Extinction of the 'Last' Thylacine" Katrina Schlunke and Hannah StarkPathsChapter 7. "Life on Pig Row: Living with Austerity." Andrew and Carol OldhamChapter 8. "A Poetics of Embodied Gardening" Judy KendallAbout the Contributors