Suzanne Edgar
Catching the Light
Ginninderra Press, 2020
Catching the Light is Suzanne Edgar’s fourth collection of poetry. In it, this ‘intelligent, inventive and gifted poet continues her daring discoveries and explorations’ (Les Murray) of both the light and the darker sides of life.
Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2020
“Edgar’s poems are clear, accessible…and balanced either by lovely rhymes that structure the early poems or by syllabic rhythms where rhyme is not needed to make the poetry work.”
About the Author
Suzanne Edgar was born and educated in Adelaide and came to Canberra as a young woman with her husband Peter. She taught Women's Studies at the Australian National University and was a contributing editor with the Dictionary of Australian Biography for over twenty years. Edgar was a member of the ‘Canberra Seven’ or ‘Canberra Seven Writers’ along with Marion Halligan, Dorothy Johnston, Margaret Barbalet, Sara Dowse, Marian Eldridge and Dorothy Horsfield. They met regularly to critique each other's writing. In 1988 four of her short stories were included in Canberra Tales: Stories, published in 1988 by the group.
