Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer's selection, covering a range of female preoccupations, begins in the sixteenth century and ends at the present day.

Marianne Moore said it is the poets job to depict 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them. In this anthology Germaine Greer presents poets from classical antiquity to the 21st century who succeed in doing just that.

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.

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.