Ten Poems About Herbs

A gorgeous alternative to sending someone a card.

With covers created by leading contemporary artists and poems hand-picked to speak every garden enthusiast. 

Herbs delight us with their fragrance and flavour. They can be food, medicine, or perfume and in these captivating poems, they seem to hold even more magic. Herbs can evoke memories of the past, stir feelings of love, or sometimes do both at once.

From mint and basil growing along a Mediterranean roadside, to marjoram buzzing with bees in a garden, and the pungent wild garlic of an English woodland, herbs invite us to pause. They draw us in, asking us to pick a stem or simply breathe in their scent.

These poems celebrate herbs not just for their utility, but for their power to make us slow down, to notice, and to marvel at the beauty that grows wild around us.

• Poems by Maggie Anderson, Sujata Bhatt, Jane Burn, Jim Daniels, Isobel Dixon, John Fuller, Lyn Lifshin, Alfred Noyes, Gibbons Ruark and Robert Seatter.
  
• Cover illustration by Sarah Boccaccini Meadows
• Published May 2025
• Pages: 28