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    Outside in My Dressing Gown: Poems for Garden Lovers

    By Liz Cowley

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    What is more enjoyable first thing in the morning than slipping out to the garden in your dressing gown? Liz Cowley shares this and many other delightful moments as she takes us on a humorous journey through the gardener's year. Laugh through the seasons with Liz's poems, filled with acute observations and bitter-sweet wit. Here is everything from the joy of a first crocus and the frustration of a floppy hyacinth to drought and soaring dragonflies, or wrestling with weevils and being kept awake by the nightmare sound of mating foxes. Written in many different styles from classic to modern, Liz's writing is a voice for all gardeners, even those who would not normally reach for verse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGibson Square
    Release dateJun 10, 2015
    ISBN9781783340804
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    Outside in My Dressing Gown: Poems for Garden Lovers
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    Liz Cowley

    After many years as an advertising copywriter, Liz Cowley's first book of 'approachable poetry' A Red Dress, was described by Joanna Lumley as 'witty, poignant and straight from the heart', and was turned into a popular stage show in London and Dublin. She then made a name for herself with amusing volumes about gardening, like Outside in my dressing gown and Gardening in slippers, earning the accolade by The Lady magazine as 'Britain's finest gardening poet'.

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