Flowers was written for the painter and writer Winnifred Nicholson
, who died in 1981.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Winifred Nicholson
Its heavily-symbolic title paradoxically suggests both life and death; it expresses a foreboding sense of the latter...
Publishing
Frances Horovitz
FH
and Garfitt
produced two more works together in 1982: Rowlston Haiku, of which the Five Seasons Press
printed 220 copies and for which Alan Halsey
did the illustrations, and Presences of Nature...