A calendar of flowers : selected poems 1975-2000
Five Islands Press, 2001. 114 pp.
A calendar of flowers is a selection by me of the best of my poetry written in the 25 years up to 2000. The early poems include both serious and tongue-in-cheek versions of Greek mythology and ballads and meditations on Australian history and mythology. Later poems revive the old English literary riddle, as well as French and Japanese literary forms, all applied to the one end: a celebration of the natural and built environments of Australia, and the history and imaginative genius of its people.
Now out of print.
Praise for A calendar of flowers
"Original, meticulously crafted, witty and most readable... a major contribution to Australian literature." -- Judith Wright