The Walled Garden: A Fantasia

Fantasy and surrealist short stories or prose-poems, set more or less in “The Torture Garden” of Octave Mirbeau. Afterword by Richard Olafson, “Eye of the Bird, on The Walled Garden by Michael Bullock” in which he compares to the work to that of Lautremont or Monk Lewis, the walls of the garden being barriers to consciousness. A remarkable intellectual work of the fantastique.

The Walled Garden is a work both imagistic and mythic, a unity of inner and outer worlds in verse and prose. At the centre of the book is Bullock’s method of transfiguring inanimate things into powerful symbols of consciousness.