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the herbarium world book night 2021
‘With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?’
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Prison Writings, Penguin Classics, 2013
This year United Artists for World Book Night invited participants to search for flowers in a book or poem.
The text could have a flowery title, be about flowers or the mention of flowers, perhaps even prompting a
new artist’s book to be made. Artists were requested to respond to their chosen flowery words by creating
and sending a physical flower, for exhibition and a floral exchange.
We also asked our artists to make a note of the title author, publisher and date of the work that had
inspired them, which in turn has created a bibliography of flowers for the catalogue of the project,
The Herbarium.
The size of the work was specified to be less than 8 x 8 x 2cm, with no organic materials, but the brief was
otherwise wide – paper, fabric, collage, drawn, printed, text-based, painted, photographic etc.
The response has been excellent, 141 artists from fifteen countries have sent 168 flowers. Blooms have
arrived from: Australia, Denmark, England, the Kingdom of Fife, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Nepal,
The Netherlands, Scotland, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Singapore, Sweden, & the United American
states of Indiana, Pennsylvania & California.
The language of flowers flourished in the Victorian era, but it largely died out with the mores of the time,
and is now mainly spoken by florists. The red rose still stands for passionate love, and the poppy is linked
with remembrance of war. Chrysanthemums are a symbol of a long and happy life in Asia, but should
never be given as a gift in France where they are reserved for the floral tributes of a funeral.
Although critics have panned Georgia O’Keefe for her reminders that plants use their flowers to attract
the birds and the bees, humans are also attracted to flowers. They are powerful signifiers of emotion,
carrying sensuous memories of colour, perfume and touch. We cultivate them in our gardens, and use
them to punctuate and accompany the major times of life and death.
We are delighted that the acclaimed poet, writer and artist’s book maker Nancy Campbell accepted our
commission to write for this project. Nancy’s beautiful poems have been hand-set and letterpress printed
to make a very special keepsake that will be included with the postal exchange of flowers when the
exhibition finishes.
Blue skies and sunshine in April remind us that spring is a season of renewal and hope. Our flowers now
are ready to leave the potting shed and the collection will be on display in the greenhouse vitrines of
Bower Ashton Library, from 23rd April to 23rd May 2021.
The library is currently not open to the public, so we are sharing the flowers in this online catalogue
available to the public and our fellow gardeners.
United Artists for World Book Night 2021 ~ The Herbarium has been organised by
Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr. Text by Linda Parr
Qiling Xu: ‘Little Plum Blossom of Hill Garden’, Lin Bu Angelique Santos: The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Zhejiang Collected Poems, Ancient Books Publishing House, 1986 Burnett, HarperCollins, 2010 Claire B. Marcus: A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Ming Lee So: ‘Tulips’, Syliva Plath, Collected Poems, Stevenson, M. A. Donohue, 1916 HarperCollins, 1981 Ahlrich van Ohlen: Wilde Iris, Louise Glück, Sammlung Kirsten Dietrich: The Land, Vita Sackville-West, Luchterhand, 2008 William Heinemann, 1926
Kirsten Dietrich: The Land, Vita Sackville-West, Gin Saunders: The Language of Flowers, Mrs L. Burkes, William Heinemann, 1926 Hugh Evelyn Ltd, 1963 Noriko Suzuki-Bosco: The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean, David Dellafiora: Notre-Dame-Des-Fleurs, Jean Genet, Vintage, 2000 Marc Barbezat, 1943 Sigrid Ehemann: Flowers and Nature. Netherlandish Flower Linda Parr: The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio, Painting of Four Centuries, Sam Segal, SDU Publishers, 1990 Penguin Books, 1972
Ahlrich van Ohlen: Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Kirsten Dietrich: The Land, Vita Sackville-West,
Aufbau-Verlag Berlin, 1983 William Heinemann, 1926
Cheuk Chi Chan: ‘Butterfly and Flower’ BoMai, 2006 Ben Jenner: When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne,
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1924.
Margaret Burraston: The Botanist’s Daughter, Kayte Nunn, Kirsten Dietrich: The Land, Vita Sackville-West,
Orion Publishing Co, 2019 William Heinemann, 1926
Tsz Wing Chan: Have You Ever Seen a Flower?, Shawn Su Fahy: ‘To a Mountain Daisy’ Poetical Works,
Harris, Chronicle Books, 2021 Robert Burns, Collins, c.1940
Elaine Knight: Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire, Sonia Leggett: Snake’s Head Fritillary, North Meadow
John E. Tidball, 2018 Nature Reserve, Wiltshire, UK, artist’s book, 2016
Kam Lun Chan: ‘Devil’s Snare’, Gina Rush, 2014 Brooke Koven: An Island Garden, Celia Thaxter,
Houghton Mufflin, 1894
Gwen Simpson: ‘Darling Buds of May’ William Shakespeare, Hiu Man Chan: No Rain, No Flowers, Karon Dextra,
English Verse Vol 1, Oxford University Press, 1952 Readersmagnet LLC, 2021
Cathey Webb: This is Yarrow, Ahlrich van Ohlen: ‘Die Blaue Blume’,
Tara Bergin, Carcanet Press, 2013 Joseph von Eichendorff, 1818
Julie Blankenship: The Vagabond, Colette, Lizzie Field: Botanicum, Kathy Wills & Katie Scott,
Penguin Classics, 1995 Big Picture Press, 2016
Ahlrich van Ohlen: ‘The Hill We Climb’, Amanda Wing Yu Chan: ‘Like a flower in the desert’, Christy Gorman, poem for USA inauguration 2021 Ann Martine, 2019 Zelda Velika: Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Janet Allsebrook: The Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988 The Folio Society, 2002 Margaret Burraston: Travels with My Aunt, Graham Siu Hang Chung: Dark of the Moon, John Sandford, Greene, Penguin, 2004 G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007
Janet Allsebrook: The Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear, Kai Tin Cheng: What’s Inside A Flower? And Other Questions The Folio Society, 2002 About Science & Nature, Rachel Ignotofsky, Crown Books, 2021 Lis Evans: ‘Primrose’, The Complete Book of Flower Fairies, Brooke Koven: For a Flower Album, Colette, C. M. Barker, Frederick Warne, 1996 David McKay Company, 1960 Man Yi Cheung: Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel, Valérie Elizabeth Dymond: ‘White into White’, Sujita Hisajo, Perrin, Europa Editions, 2020 World Haiku Review, 2001
Ka Him Chiu: ‘Mutability - The Flower That Smiles Sue Vallance: Bread Cement Cactus, Annie Zaidi,
Today’, Shelley, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Cambridge University Press, 2020
Volume 4 (1839)
Sarah Bodman: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Chan Yu Sing: Welcome Flower Child: The Magic of Your
Garcia Márquez, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988 Birth Flower, Brigette Barrager, Random House. 2021
Chung Chau Cheung: Cool Flowers: How to Grow and Enjoy
Ahlrich van Ohlen: Jahreszeitenblume / Seasons Flower,
Long-Blooming Hardy Annual Flowers Using Cool Weather
artist’s book, Ahlrich van Ohlen 2021
Techniques, Lisa Mason Ziegler, St. Lynn’s Press, 2014Elena Zeppou: Perfume - The Story of a Murderer, Charlotte Hall: The Hot House Flower, Lucinda Riley, Patrick Süskind, Penguin Books, 1987 Penguin Books, 2010 Danielle Cossey: Virgil: The Eclogues, translated by A. S. Chris Ruston: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, John Keats, Kline, 2001 Oxford Press, 1819 Alison Raybould: ‘Weeds’, Sea To The West, Norman Rosemary Everett: Life in the Garden, Penelope Lively, Nicholson, Faber & Faber, 1981 Penguin, 2018
Chak Kuen Wong: Wildflowers: A Guide to Identifying Sharon Hall Shipp: Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury,
the Wildflowers in the Wine Country of Northern California, Corgi Books, 1965
Barbara R. Haddon, 2020
Sarah Bodman: The Blind Man’s Garden, Nadeem Aslam, Tanya Hardy: ‘Heirloom’, Kathleen Raine, The Bloodaxe
Vintage Books, 2013 Book of Contemporary Woman Poets, ed. Jeni Couzyn, 1985
Tsz Ho Fong: The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser, 1590 Kam Ping Yu: Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover
the Cost of Saving a Life, Katherine E. Standefer, Little,
Brown Spark, 2020Sarah Bodman: Dance, Dance, Dance, Haruki Murakami, Chrystal Cherniwchan: The Chernobyl Herbarium:
Vintage, 2002 Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness, Michael Marder &
Anaïs Tondeur, Open Humanities Press, 2016
Jil Fairclough: ‘The Rose’, William Carlos Williams Selected
Poems, Penguin Books 1976
Ching Ping Ivy Fung: The Language of Flowers: A Novel,
Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine Books, 2012
Bindu Adhikary: ‘The Rose is My Favourite Flower,’ Lynette Willoughby: The Bluebell Wood, Kelly Knight,
In the Realm of The Mind, Bishwa Basnet, 1991 Austin Macauley Publishers, 2018Wai Ho Fong: ‘A Red, Red Rose’, Robert Burns, 1794 Carolyn Wing: The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran, Penguin
Books, 1992
Richard Shipp: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the- Constanze Kreiser: ‘Tulips’, Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath,
Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel, Harper & Row, 1971 Harper Collins, 1992
Catherine Polley: The Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Constanze Kreiser: Wilde Iris, Louise Glück, Sammlung
Arnim, Vintage, 1922 Luchterhand, 2008Su Bovington: ‘Lathyrus’, British and Foreign Flowering Eva Hejdström: ‘Auguries of Innocence’, Pickering Plants and Ferns, Anna Atkins, 1853/54 Manuscripts, William Blake, 1863 Wing Ki Ho: Seven Wings and the Bleeding Twin Flowers, Ella Budd: Reader’s Digest Family Guide to Nature: Answers to 1001 T. K. Francisco, Credo House Publishing, 2011 Questions, Richard L. Scheffel, Reader’s Digest Services, 1984 Sara Elgerot: ‘The Last Flower of Autumn’, Poems, Nga Ting Ip: Beauty and the Beast, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Edith Södergran, Holger Schildts förlag, 1916 Villeneuve, 1756
Jessica Ho: The Story of Rose, Hi Shu, Cosmos Books, Lynn Pilling: ‘Thistles’, Ted Hughes: Poems selected by Simon
2008 Armitage, Faber & Faber, 2000
Roy Willingham: ‘Our Sea-walled Garden’, Richard II,
William Shakespeare, Andrew Wise, 1597
Isabella Meregote: The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-
Exupéry, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943
Corinne Welch: ‘A Tale’, Collected Poems, Edward
Thomas, Faber & Faber, 1974Eva Hejdström: ‘Auguries of Innocence’, Pickering
Manuscripts, William Blake, 1863
Sarah Bradicich: The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson
Burnett, William Heinemann, 1911
Yan Tung Kwong: The People Look Like Flowers At Last,
Charles Bukowski, Ecco, 2014
Yiran Gao: ‘I Watched a Rosebud’,
Christina Rosetti, Macmillan, 1879Mike Clements: Green Manuring - Principles and Practice, Maria White: Morning Glory, Alan Spence, Lucina
Dr. Adrian J. Pieters, Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1927 Prestige (Ed.), Elizabeth Blackadder (Illustrator)
Renaissance Press, 2011
Sin Yu Kwok: The Iron Flower, Laurie Forest, Harlequin, Bernd W Plake: Flower Fairies of the Garden,
2018 Cicely Mary Barker, Blackie & Son Ltd, 1974
Niamh Fahy: Station Island, Seamus Heaney, Eva Hejdström: ‘Auguries of Innocence’, Pickering
Faber & Faber, 1984 Manuscripts, William Blake, 1863Hiu Ting Lai: The Champa Flower, Rabindranath Tagore, Anne Bossenbroek: Fleurs de Rouille (Rust Flowers), artist’s Katha Books, 2012 book, Anne Bossenbroek-Bouchard, 2021 Philippa Wood: ‘Sunflower and chives’, Companion Tamar MacLellan: ‘Lavender and leeks’, Companion Planting, Richard Bird, Quarto Publishing Plc, 1990 Planting, Richard Bird, Quarto Publishing Plc, 1990 Hei Yu Wong: Launch-Zing, Floret Farm’s Discovering Rosie Ingrey: One Hundred Poems from The Japanese, Dahlias, Erin Benzakein, Chronicle Books, 2021 Kenneth Rexroth, New Directions, 1964
Eva Hejdström: ‘Auguries of Innocence’, Pickering Hui Sze Lau: Paper Flower Art, Jessie Chui, GMC
Manuscripts, William Blake, 1863 Publications, 2020
Ka Man Lam: ‘Lilacs in the valley’, Chia-Tung Lee, Lucie Graham-Smith: ‘Forgive my hat’, The Garden
Party and Selected Short Stories, Katherine Mansfield,
Oxford University Press, 2008
Eduardo Garcia: Flores Mensajeras, Eduardo Garcia, Mei Yin Lai: Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes, Harcourt,
Ediciones Fruta Bomba, February 2021 2004Judy Rodrigues: The Magic Wreath of Hidden Flowers, Yee Ting Wong: Flowers in the Dark, Sister Dang Nghiem,
Grace Aguilar, W.H. Mason, 1835 Parallax Press, 2021
Prerna Chandiramani: ‘A Mere Flower’, Stray Birds, Ying Nam Lau: A Life Without Flowers, Marci Bolden,
Rabindranath Tagore, The Macmillan Company, 1917 Pink Sand Press, 2020
Kei Tung Tang: All the Flowers in Paris: A Novel, Random Ka Yan Lee: Crepe Paper Flowers: The Beginner’s Guide
House, 2019 to Making and Arranging Beautiful Blooms, Lia Griffith,
Clarkson Potter, 2018Barbara A. Morton: ‘Haiku from Origami’, Barbara A. Wing Ki Yuen: Hope for the Flowers, Trina Paulus,
Morton, Entropie Books, 2016 Paulist Press 1973
Yijia Bai: ‘My Butterfly’, Robert Frost, The World’s Ho Yan Lo: ‘wildflowers’, Gaby Comprés, 2016
Poetry Archive, 1894
Edmund Chia: What A Rose, Edmund Chia, 2021 Hiu Kwan Yu: Flowers: Creative Design, James L. Johnson
Jr, San Jacinto Publishing Co., 2001Ka Lee Lip: ‘The Language of Flowers’, Zhou Dunyi, Wai Man Yau: ‘The Rose that grew from Concrete’, n.d. Tupac Shakur, 2009 Anwyl Cooper-Willis: Nonsense Botany, Edward Lear, Theo Wood: Winter Flowering Plants, Arthur Osborn, Warne and Co., 1877 Ward Lock & Co, 1948 Clare Carswell: Launch-Zing, Clare Carswell, Oolith Chin Hei Liu: Everlastings: How to Grow, Harvest and Create Press, 2021 with Dried Flowers, Bex Partridge, Hardie Grant, 2020
Sarah Wootton: ‘The Georgics’, Virgil, 29BC Lynette Willoughby: The Colour Fuschia, Celie Adam,
Alphonso House, 2021
Sumi Perera: Dandelion Wine, Cheuk Yan Yu: Flowers in the Gutter, K. R. Gaddy, Dutton
Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1957 Books, 2020
Jean Hathaway: ’Violets, Eeyore’ from Rabbit’s Busy Day, Anna Juchnowicz: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges
The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne, Methuen, 1928 Perec, Ed & trans John Sturrock, Penguin Classics, 2008Sally Chinea: A Garden to Dye For, Chris McLaughlin, Anwyl Cooper-Willis: Nonsense Botany, Edward Lear, St Lynn’s Press, 2014 Warne and Co., 1877 Ka Wai Sung: A Year Full of Flowers, Sarah Raven, Corinne: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, Bloomsbury, 2021 Macmillan, 1865 Kathryn Poole: ‘The Crocus’, Norman Nicholson; Poets of Siu Ho Lo: ‘Plant Healing Words’, Alexandra Vasiliu, Our Time, compiled by F. E. S. Finn, John Murray, 1973 2021
Andrea Robinson: ‘The Flower Girls: Shirley Poppy’, Andrea Robinson: ‘The Flower Girls: Crocus Lily’, Lily Poppy Poppy Rose: a short guide to the flowers of Lambeth The Observer’s Book of Common Flowers, compiled by artist’s book, Andrea Robinson, 2016 Arthur King Frederick Warner & Co. Ltd, 1957 Anwyl Cooper-Willis: Nonsense Botany, Edward Lear, Lok Yi Ma: The Language of Flowers: A Novel, Warne and Co., 1877 Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Ballantine Books, 2012 Hiu Tung Ming: The Land Gardeners, Bridget Elworthy, Cho Tik Wong: ‘Dead Dandelions’, Collette Wilson, Thames & Hudson, 2020 2012
Jude Maguire: The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Anwyl Cooper-Willis: Nonsense Botany, Edward Lear,
Alexander Von Humboldt, Andrea Wulf, John Murray, 2016 Warne and Co., 1877
Hoi Ting Ng: ‘Windflowers’, Seals & Crofts, 1974 Gen Harrison: Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, Dean &
Co, 1971
Elizabeth Willow: Our Vanishing Wildflowers, Nga Yan Ng: ‘Gardenia jasminoides’ Rene Liu,
Henry S. Salt, Watts & Co., 1928 1995Rachel Marsh: The Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley,
Bloomsbury, New York, 2017
Jill Lauriston: ‘in time of daffodils’, 95 poems by
ee cummings, Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1958
Ka Ching Lo: ‘Physics of Love’ Kim Inwook, 2016
Yin Yin Sin: The Art of Pressed Flowers and Leaves,
Jennie Ashmore, Batsford, 2019Karen F. Pierce: The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco, Jane Cradock-Watson: ‘The Black Magnolia’, The Wild
Martin Secker & Warburg, 1983 Cherry Tree, H. E. Bates, Penguin Books, 1968
Heather Chou: ‘Ione’, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Ka Yan Yuen: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel,
Dunbar, Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1913 Lisa See, Random House, 2009
Andrea Hill: Lockdown Flower, Andrea Hill, 2021 Tsz Shan Lau: Trees, Leaves, Flowers and Seeds: A Visual Encyclopedia
of the Plant Kingdom, DK / Smithsonian Institution, 2019Anwyl Cooper-Willis: Nonsense Botany, Edward Lear, Sylee Gore: ‘Impossible Bouquet: Berlin 2021, Paperwork Warne and Co., 1877 and the Will of Capital, Taryn Simon, 2015 Ka Yan Law: ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, Ka Yan Law: ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, William Wordsworth, 1802 William Wordsworth, 1802 Pauline Lamont-Fisher: ‘The Bee Meeting’ Ariel, Kate Bernstein: The Beckoning Lady, Margery Allingham, Sylvia Plath, Faber & Faber, 1965 Hogarth Crime, 1987
Witch-hazel
Hamamelis virginiana
As smoke will rise from a candle only after the flame dies
so a branch must be cut from the bush before it finds water
in the frozen earth. When clouds are heavy with snow, a revolution occurs:
flower outstrips leaf, little sparks spilling and curling from the burl’
blazing at the same moment the black seeds burst.
Watercress
Nasturtium officinale
How to tell one shadow from another underwater – cool leaves like coins cast
deep in dappled river – how to know florets from spots of sunlight?
Hollow stems plaited and knotted with water, like pattern of thought
or weather. How is it not the river I bundle into bags? Old herb,
farmed longer than any other, green fire to burn the tongue
and bolster the blood that flows through us.
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Call it wound-wort, when rust scraped from the sword
becomes a blossom to heal the cut the blade made,
or thousand-seal, flowers within flowers small as stars or cells.
Test pollen to date a tomb, scatter stalks to tell the future.
Under the pillow it brings a night of dreams
or seven years of love. Call it Plumajillo, little feather –
the fronds found everywhere, even lining the starling’s nest
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