Between the Words by Sue Lewis Happy and this was followed by

and this was followed by eleven books of fiction and many books of poetry

all the while managing to balance her trademark flickering candle-lit lyrics with found poems

One Friday night

Her work appears in every major anthology of American poetry

In her poem ‘Deliverance’ about her son’s birth she writes ‘What is the word for when the light leaves the body

Between the Words by Sue Lewis Happy and this was followed bySue Lewis has won previous pamphlet awards and one of the many things that delights about her work is that each new collection pushes the boundaries of language and integrity further. The writing is lucid, precise, the metaphors are precise and fresh, but the effect is to take us withinto interior landscapes where there is not certainty but the constant liminality of life in process, the questions and doubts we contend with, the moments of compassion