Mesostic Herbarium - A Anthology of Mesostic Poems on the Names of Flora by Various Amateurs of Botany (Paperback)

Poetry. Multimedia. "MESOSTIC HERBARIUM is an album of phytological and mycological poems collected from people in many countries...the mesostic is guided by certain rules: choose a plant, its name gives a stem; compose a poem, one word per line...MESOSTIC HERBARIUM relates to orders of knowledge, in particular botany...Through these poems we can gauge a wide-ranging cultural vision of nature, for there is an anthropology at work here..."--Alec Finlay. Includes CD-ROM of WORDWOOD, a collection of animated mesostic poetry by pupils at schools in Durham Sunderland Region and Perthshire. Check out other SPD titles by Platform Projects including THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS and TURNING TOWARD LIVING.