Dear Ghosts - Softcover

"These poems are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers--songs of love and loss, of pain and recovery. . . . A brave, unsparing, searchingly considered lesson for and statement to those of us lucky enough to meet the author through this book." --Robert Coles

Gallagher's seventh collection of poetry and the first to follow the powerful Moon Crossing Bridge, in which she eulogises her dead husband Raymond Carver. Dear Ghosts conjures the spirits of the past as a communion for the present day - the deceased beloved, a long-dead father and the victims of holocaust and war. With these spirits beside her, Gallagher confronts her own illness and mortality and celebrates new love and friendship in spare lyrics and sprawling narratives, each punctuated by her feisty resilience and signature grace.