My latest poetry collection, The Hands of a Gardener, is an intimate portrait of the English landscape gardener, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. It follows his trajectory to the very top of gardening nobility, his women, his creative process and, of course, his gardens.

Lancelot Brown biographer Steffie Shields, MBE, says: “Lovers of landscape will relish this enthralling collection of poems. Threading ideas through contoured landscape garden vistas, Sarah evaluates what matters to society. Did Brown drain grazing ground to create expansive, sinuous ‘rivers’ merely to boast breath-taking reflections of Nature’s magnificence? Might he have also watered emerging buds of freedom for women – including his wife and daughters? Sarah’s storytelling engages with every touching detail. ‘The Hands of a Gardener’ helps us fathom how and why her genius muse, the ‘Great Leveller’, left such priceless ‘sense of place’.

And poet, Rebecca Goss says: 'From the very first poem, with its surprise of sensuality, we know Sarah Salway’s portrait of 18th Century English gardener and landscape architect, Lancelot Brown, will be an intimate one. In a collection that is as engaging as it is innovative, we are steered by Salway’s insight and reflection, gifting us a deeper understanding of one man, his family, his longings, his life’s work.'

Email me - sarah@sarahsalway.co.uk - and I’ll be happy to send you a signed copy of the book. It’s £12 plus postage. Otherwise please do order it at your local bookshop.