A Garden in the Rain
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 dodger collects wild plants from the coast of British Columbia. Camellias bloom as a sex worker from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside enters a creative writing class. Witch hazel acts as a metaphor for a son suffering with bipolar disorder.

With the four seasons as an overarching structure, Catherall deftly moves between forms: A palindrome reveals the murderous and miraculous qualities of rhubarb. "Fig Sestina" describes a perfect summer gift from the husband's garden.

Frozen hellebore blooms and bleeding hearts garland a journey through motherhood, marriage, and friendship, while wisteria cascades outside the boundaries of pleasure and grief. Lush, fragrant, and humming with life, A Garden in the Rain reminds us that all is never lost-that plants may die, but "gardens are forever."
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A Garden in the Rain
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 dodger collects wild plants from the coast of British Columbia. Camellias bloom as a sex worker from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside enters a creative writing class. Witch hazel acts as a metaphor for a son suffering with bipolar disorder.

With the four seasons as an overarching structure, Catherall deftly moves between forms: A palindrome reveals the murderous and miraculous qualities of rhubarb. "Fig Sestina" describes a perfect summer gift from the husband's garden.

Frozen hellebore blooms and bleeding hearts garland a journey through motherhood, marriage, and friendship, while wisteria cascades outside the boundaries of pleasure and grief. Lush, fragrant, and humming with life, A Garden in the Rain reminds us that all is never lost-that plants may die, but "gardens are forever."
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A Garden in the Rain

A Garden in the Rain

by Dell Catherall
A Garden in the Rain

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 dodger collects wild plants from the coast of British Columbia. Camellias bloom as a sex worker from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside enters a creative writing class. Witch hazel acts as a metaphor for a son suffering with bipolar disorder.

With the four seasons as an overarching structure, Catherall deftly moves between forms: A palindrome reveals the murderous and miraculous qualities of rhubarb. "Fig Sestina" describes a perfect summer gift from the husband's garden.

Frozen hellebore blooms and bleeding hearts garland a journey through motherhood, marriage, and friendship, while wisteria cascades outside the boundaries of pleasure and grief. Lush, fragrant, and humming with life, A Garden in the Rain reminds us that all is never lost-that plants may die, but "gardens are forever."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781039198548
Publisher: FriesenPress
Publication date: 01/26/2024
Pages: 114
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.27(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.
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