From a Garden in the Antipodes

Acknowledgment and Note

Acknowledgment and Note

Nine of these poems first appeared in The Home, and three in Art in Australia. Acknowledgments are due to the editors of these Sydney periodicals for permission to reprint.

P. 59. Bidibidi is the Maori name (commonly abbreviated as in line 1) of a noxious weed, said to be a variety of Acaena, that gets into sheep’s wool.