Child’s Play – poems
by Ben Gallagher
Synopsis
Questions about gender, grief, responsibility, and play animate the poems in this collection, which take the challenges of parenting as an opening into the wonder and mystery of being alive.
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Cover illustration by Ali Brew, alibrew.com
Book design by Berdene Owen
Ben Gallagher lives in West Dublin, Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) with his wife and children. Ben is a Zen practitioner with the Oak Tree in the Garden sangha, and a teacher at the South Shore Waldorf School. His first poetry collection, A Grief Cave, was published by Frontenac House in 2022.