Olivia Laing & Jon Day: The Garden Against Time
<p>Drawing on her own experience restoring a walled garden in Suffolk, and moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s&nbsp;<em>Paradise Lost</em>&nbsp;to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Olivia Laing’s&nbsp;<em>The Garden Against Time</em>&nbsp;interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. She was joined in conversation with writer, critic and frequent <em>LRB</em> contributor Jon Day.</p><br><p>Get <em>The Garden Against Time</em>: <a href="https://lrb.me/gardenlaing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/gardenlaing</a></p><p>Find more events at the Bookshop: <a href="https://lrb.me/eventspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/eventspod</a></p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Show Notes
Drawing on her own experience restoring a walled garden in Suffolk, and moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Olivia Laing’s The Garden Against Time interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. She was joined in conversation with writer, critic and frequent LRB contributor Jon Day.
Get The Garden Against Time: https://lrb.me/gardenlaing
Find more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspod
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.