The Walled Garden A Fantasia Author:Michael Bullock An important achievement from a writer who has explored the unconscious in poetry and fiction for fifty years, The Walled Garden belongs to a developing tradition on the Pacific Coast of exploring landscape as inner and outer worlds. At the centre of the book is Bullock's eye for the image, his command of metaphor, and his intense, often ellipti... more »cal method of transfiguring inanimate objects into powerful symbols of consciousness. Through a series of poems and short prose passages the book is fashioned into a mystical-gothic-romantic poetic ritual: behind the walled garden of consciousness, of love and myth, lies the mind's desire to transcend itself, and ordinary reality.« less