Ahead of Us

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.

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.