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Poetry Nature

A Hundred Poems About Flowers

the third twenty-five

by (author) Robyn Marie Butt

Publisher
Boularderie Island Press
Initial publish date
May 2016
Category
Nature
  • Book

    ISBN
    9781926448138
    Publish Date
    May 2016
    List Price
    $22.95
  • Book

    ISBN
    9780991855247
    Publish Date
    May 2014
    List Price
    $22.95
  • Book

    ISBN
    9781926448077
    Publish Date
    May 2015
    List Price
    $22.95

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For the third instalment of her poem-and-audio collaboration with Southwestern Ontario painters, Robyn Marie Butt looks at two flower workers from history: eighteenth-century English gentlewoman Mary Delany, originator of the art of collage; and twentieth-century British physician, healer, and mystic Edward Bach, creator of the Bach Flower Remedies. Engaged, insightful, and wryly humorous, here Butt’s poems explore the eternally rich subject of flowers through one artist’s life and one healer’s work until the poems become a form of thoughtful journeying. Butt’s surprise destination is a place where compelling resolutions appear in the little, overlooked things – things that gall us or keep us going, and turn out not to be so little at all.numerous. While flowers have real sensuous value as living things, yet hold many symbolic meanings for humans, a writer could go in plenty of directions considering them. And this is the generous tack that Butt takes. These poems are luscious in detail yet mostly delivered in a colloquial voice. They are wise and smart. They are sometimes sad and frequently witty. These are poems of a numinous spirituality.

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A frequent national poetry competition award winner, Robyn Marie Butt's audio dramas have won honours & awards both nationally and internationally. As author, culture critic and creative essayist her work has appeared in many magazines, earning National Magazine Award and Journey Prize nominations.