A Garden in the Rain

by Dell Catherall

Overview

In this début collection, Dell Catherall shapes language the way a gardener prunes an aspen tree. Paying tribute to a garden, a husband, a son lost to childhood demons, the poems in this collection connect the humble to the luminous. A draft dodg...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781039198555
Publisher:	FriesenPress
Publication date:	01/26/2024
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Dell Catherall is a poet and retired high school teacher-librarian. Post retirement she was a volunteer teacher for ten years in the Carnegie Community Centre learning program. Her poem "Fig Sestina" was published in Best Canadian Poetry 2020. Other poems have been published in literary journals and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. A lifelong dancer, Dell has been tapping and performing with Razzmatap for over thirty years. When she's not writing, dancing or assisting her husband in the garden, she enjoys Zumba, Pilates and the DSS bookclub.

Dell lives in Vancouver, BC with her husband Greer (a master gardener) and a cat named Tiki.