Olivia Laing
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time explores the long association between gardens and paradise, interrogating the cost of creating it and the potential for new modes of living amidst the flower beds. It is a place of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.
Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
This remarkable book has captured my heart in so many ways. The enchanting and beautifully written story, coupled with the fascinating and thought-provoking excursions along the way, have left me in awe. The garden I chose, while walled, was interconnected and open to the world, just like every other garden.
In 2020, Olivia Laing embarked on a remarkable journey to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unique plants. This project led her into an exhilarating exploration of paradise and its profound connection with gardens. Laing traversed between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery. Through her meticulous inquiry, Laing uncovers the sometimes shocking costs associated with creating paradise on Earth. However, the story of the garden is not solely one of privilege and exclusion. It is also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris. Amidst the flower beds, Laing explores new modes of living, experiments that hold the potential to be vital in the face of climate change.
The Garden Against Time is a captivating and precise account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities that gardens offer. It is not a place to hide from the world but rather a site of encounter and discovery, filled with the buzzing sound of bees and the pollen-laden air. This book has opened my eyes to the transformative power of gardens and has inspired me to embrace their beauty and potential in my own life.
Weight: 518g
Dimension: 225 x 143 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529066678
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