Native Rose (hardcover edition)

Sydney : Richard Griffin, 1986. Large quarto, cloth in dust jacket (light handling wear), 58 pp, illustrated by Whiteley. The scarce hardcover edition of this book of poems illustrated with large format plates.

A series of poems by Michael Driscoll inspired by the Olgas (Kata Tjuṯa) in Central Australia and the journals of explorer Ernest Giles. Driscoll’s friend Brett Whiteley read his poems and decided to travel to Central Australia to see the landscape for himself. The result is a fusion of the surrealist imagery of Whiteley with the wonder of discovery of this ancient landscape.