Driving to Mulberrygong is the final collection of Adelaide poet Miriel Lenore (1928-2024), her selection from more than thirty years of writing. Some poems have never been published, some are long-time favourites.
The collection brings together themes arising from the writer's varied and adventurous life: country kid, botanist, researcher, traveller, student, teacher, activist, feminist, mother, grandmother. Miriel spent twenty years in Fiji, forty years in the Australian women's movement and the Adelaide writing scene, and ten years as a regular visitor to a Ngaanyatjarra community in the Western Desert.
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From her days as a botanist, to her years at an agricultural school in Fiji, to her passion for Australian rock art, Miriel Lenore (1928-2024) has long been working away at questions of ecology and place. Her poetry is also deeply grounded in her experience as a feminist, mother, grandmother and pioneer of a different sort. Miriel explores the heart-breaking questions of the white settler story: where is home and how do we live here?
ISBN 9781923388031
CATEGORY Poetry
PAGE COUNT 136
DIMENSIONS 210 x 140 mm