The creation of the four volumes that constitute "A Hundred Poems About Flowers" series took ten years to complete. The realization of these four books involved seven visual artists and resulted in four exhibitions throughout Southwestern Ontario featuring the poems and artwork that complimented each book.
In "A Hundred Poems About Flowers: the first twenty-five", Robyn Marie Butt turns her powerful lyric gaze on the so-called "humble" matter of flowers numerous. While flowers have real sensuous value as living things, yet hold many symbolic meanings for humans, a writer could go in plenty of directions considering them. And this is the generous tack that Butt takes. These poems are luscious in detail yet mostly delivered in a colloquial voice. They are wise and smart. They are sometimes sad and frequently witty. These are poems of a numinous spirituality.