Susan Kerslake Poetry The characters in this book

The characters in this book are at the fringes of society and the tattered edges of their own lives -- a teenage boy who defends his wastrel father for the first and last time

Lawrence (1970) and Harsh and Lovely Land (1979)

becoming Head of Design at U of T Press

hauntingly familiar

Poems for a Phantom Lover pairs a selection of short poems with photographs culled from decades’ worth of research into the structure and symbolism of historic gardens

Susan Kerslake Poetry The characters in this bookBorn in Chicago, Susan Kerslake has lived in Halifax since 1966. Her previous books include Middlewatch (Oberon 1976), Penumbra (Mercury 1984), Blind Date (Potterfield 1989) and Book of Fears (Ragweed 1984) which was short listed for the Governor Generals Award. For over twenty years she has worked as a volunteer with children with cystic fibrosis. Seasoning Fever is her first novel in twelve years.