Cirrus@Austlit

'Communication between poets and nature is very intimate and nature in many ways   inspires creation, especially when it comes to arts and writing. Flowers, one of nature’s greatest gifts, be it a single stalk of a rose or a garden filled with all kinds of blossoms inspires all ranges of emotions in mankind. Their beauty, their colour, their fragrance, their folds, and their very brief life makes them objects of wonder.  No doubt their beauty and fragrance have stirred up the keenest of imaginations and roused memories right from the beginnings of human imagination somewhere in the solitary caves or together around a fire.' (Editorial introduction)