House Beneath

House Beneath is the first book from Susan Telfer of Gibsons, British Columbia. Telfer takes on big issues, such as how to write out of a landscape, which despite its beauty, has been the site of much personal pain.

From the deaths of her parents to the birth of her children, here are all the elements of the imagination: art, music, family and a hard-earned faith. Writing about human relationships, family and the British Columbia landscape, Telfer encompasses the doubt of growing up within an alcoholic home but also here is affirmation, new hope and understanding. Telfer is a strong new voice; her lyric poems furnish dreams of the afterlife, even as they do the time before birth.

Here is a new voice that conveys resilience and intensity in poetry that is both vital and unmistakably original.