| Six Square Metres: Reflections from a Small Garden Contributor(s): Simons, Margaret (Author) |
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ISBN: 1950354229 ISBN-13: 9781950354221 Publisher: Scribe Us OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Gardening | Urban - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 158.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 7.6" (0.50 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Life lessons from the ground up. Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get lucky, or unlucky. All these things are true of life, as of gardening. In this thoughtful and beautifully observed book, journalist and gardening enthusiast Margaret Simons takes readers on a journey through the seasons, through her life, and through the tiny patch of inner-urban earth that is home to her garden. Over the course of a year, within the garden and without, there are births to celebrate and deaths to mourn; there are periods of great happiness and light, and times of quiet reflection. There is, in other words, all the chaos, joy, sorrow, and splendor of being alive. |
Contributor Bio(s): Simons, Margaret: - Margaret Simons is a freelance journalist and author and director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. She has published eleven books on politics and culture, as well as Resurrection in a Bucket: The Rich and Fertile Story of Compost. For many years she wrote the popular Earthmother gardening column for The Australian. As a freelancer, she has had work published in dozens of magazines and newspapers in Australia and overseas. |