Kōrero: Poetry

In 1924 Ursula Bethell established a home with Effie Pollen at Rise Cottage, on the Cashmere Hills above Christchurch, with a view over the plains to the Southern Alps. There she made a garden from the clay hillside, and much of her poetry was based on this experience. Her first collection of poems, which appeared in 1929, was entitled From a garden in the antipodes. Here Ursula Bethell is shown in her Rise Cottage garden with her cat.