The Illuminated Garden - Preorder

The Illuminated Garden by Grant Boland is an experimental long poem presented as an illuminated manuscript being read aloud. Moving through gardening, family memory, art, religion, science and the natural world, it imagines a book in which words, objects and images continually become physically present: birds fly from its pages, a kinetic sculpture unfolds from its binding, and music emerges from its dying resonance. At its centre is the author’s relationship with his mother, a lifelong gardener, and an exploration of care, mortality, beauty and our inseparability from the world around us.

The Illuminated Garden is the 4th in the Scrummage Chapbook series. It will be available in early 2027.