POEMS FOR GARDENERS

SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE

Little is known of Shakespeare’s wife , much of what is known is based on speculation. Greer uses literary-historical techniques combined with documentary evidence about life in Stratford-upon-Avon at the time to present a new set of hypotheses about the Bard’s wife.

WHITE BEECH: THE RAINFOREST YEARS

In 2001, Germaine Greer was taken to White Beech - an abandoned dairy farm in Queensland. Here she tells the story of her decade-long battle to rehabilitate the damaged forest of white beeches and other trees she found there.