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From the Winner of the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for poetry"There is a goblet of lichenfor the sun to feed fromand a single wild iriswith a mind so oldthat it came before inventionIts condition is perfectIt rests perfectly betweenour 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'.