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The Flower, the Thing
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From the Winner of the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for poetry
There is a goblet of lichen
for the sun to feed from
and a single wild iris
with a mind so old
that it came before invention
Its condition is perfect
It rests perfectly between
our hands
– from "Wild Iris"
MTC Cronin's poems - expansive and intimate, dynamic and reflective - blaze with electrifying vision. Writing with honesty and wit, grace, and the courage to strip away illusions, she explores surfaces, interiors, myths and mysteries through a kaleidoscope of flowers - dandelions, impatiens, roses, azaleas, flowers real and imagined. Suffused with awe and wonder, these poems unveil 'urgently, now, before us, the flower, the thing'.
There is a goblet of lichen
for the sun to feed from
and a single wild iris
with a mind so old
that it came before invention
Its condition is perfect
It rests perfectly between
our hands
– from "Wild Iris"
MTC Cronin's poems - expansive and intimate, dynamic and reflective - blaze with electrifying vision. Writing with honesty and wit, grace, and the courage to strip away illusions, she explores surfaces, interiors, myths and mysteries through a kaleidoscope of flowers - dandelions, impatiens, roses, azaleas, flowers real and imagined. Suffused with awe and wonder, these poems unveil 'urgently, now, before us, the flower, the thing'.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Epigraphs
- Contents
- Acacia
- Afton Blommor (Evening Flower)
- Alstroemeria
- Apple Blossom
- Azaleas
- Banyan
- Blackberry
- Bloom
- Blue Flower Second Version
- Bottle-Brush
- Brains-Bloom
- Calendula, Like Cleopatra
- Calla Lily
- Camellia
- Chloris (Flower Goddess)
- Cornflower (2000)
- Cowslip
- Crocus
- Cyclamen
- Dandelions
- Daphne & Dahlia (A Love Poem)
- Dawnflower
- Dead Fuchsia
- Dustflower
- Everlasting Daisy
- Fifteen Chrysanthemums
- Flannel Flowers
- Flower of the Graves
- Flower with Bees
- Flowers Eavesdropping
- ‘Flowers in a Vase Against a Backgroundof the Coastline of Mustapha, Algiers 1891’
- Flowers of the Rock
- Flowers which Demand or are Demanded
- Foxglove (Digitalis)
- Frangipani
- Freesia
- ‘Fritillaria’
- Garden Flowers (Las Flores del Jardin)
- Giant Asphodel
- Gillyflower
- Gingerflower
- Grape Hyacinth
- Hatzav
- High, Yellow, Summer-Coloured Grasses
- Hoya
- Impatiens
- Iris
- Island Flowers
- Jasmine
- Jonquil
- Late Rose 2
- Lavender
- Leaves
- Leis
- Lemon Blossom
- Lilac
- Lily of the Valley
- Linden Flowers
- ‘Little Daffodils of Spring’
- Lotus
- Magnolia Tree
- Mayflowers, Hyacinth & Dead Anemone
- Midsummer Flowers
- Midyim
- Mimosa
- Moon-Flower (Bind-Weed)
- Morning-Glory
- Mythic Flower
- Naked Ladies
- Nameless Flower
- Nameless Flower 2
- Narcissi
- Neven
- Oleander (Adelpha)
- Orange Blossom
- Oriental Lily Kiss Proof
- Pansy
- Pasque-Flower
- Patchouli
- Pearblossom
- Peony (Crimson or White)
- Pepperoni Flower
- Petunias
- Pink
- Poppies
- Pretty Rose
- Primula
- Reed
- Salpiglossis
- Saxifrage
- Seed
- Slender Rice-Flower
- Slipper Flowers
- Snowdrops
- Star Jasmine
- Stone Flower
- Strawberry
- Sun-Jewel
- Sunflowers (Forgery)
- Sweet Violet
- Texas Peonies
- ‘The Red Geranium’
- Three Pear Trees
- Tree
- Tulips
- Veronica
- Violetta
- Waterlily
- Wax-Flower
- Weed
- Wet Clover
- White Hibiscus
- White Orchid
- Wild Iris
- Wild Rose
- Wildflowers
- Wisteria [sic]
- Wolf-Flower
- Wreath
- Yellow Rose (Rescued & Renamed)
- The Flower, the Thing
- Acknowledgments
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