Ahead of Us

By Dennis Haskell

POETRY

112 Pages, 7.75 x 5.75

Formats: Mobipocket, PDF, EPUB

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Publication Date: February 2016

ISBN 9781925163841

Rights: WOR

Fremantle Press (Feb 2016)

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Overview

but in fact / we are as we are / together, alone, as you can see, / with elusive memories for company, /with your wisps of hair / disappearing as gently as breath. ‘After Chemo’ Ahead of Us is Dennis Haskell’s eighth book of poetry. Dedicated to his wife Rhonda, who lost her battle with cancer after a long illness, Ahead of Us contains poems of love, of two people forging a partnership together and of the inevitable end of that partnership when one person dies. It is a celebration of life and and of the fragile thread that holds us here.

Reviews

"Haskell’s shaping of language is highly skilful… the language is heightened just that notch at the appropriate moment … for the poetry to singe the reader’s senses, jolt the mind or open a new window of perception on to the world." —Rod Moran

"Haskell’s poetry ‘demonstrates how human the art of poetry can be; how it can deal with the particulars and universals of our emotions and remind us of our commonalities." —Geoff Page

"Haskell’s poetry, so often set in familiar environments and concerned with the day today ‘realities’ of life, is in fact … a consideration of what the poetic voice means in the “real world”." —John Kinsella, Southerly

Author Biography

Dennis Haskell is an Australian poet, critic and academic and the author of eight collections of poetry as well as the author of a number of critical studies and editor of a number of poetry anthologies. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia.

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