Learning to Leave is published, and haiku is a way — a way of life, a way through life. Restless winds, a vixen’s call, emptying packing boxes, kicking through a mood, a fingernail of moon…

The story behind the book? Life changing accident — we all know that phrase. In 2019 my husband had a simple fall which resulted in paralysis from spinal cord injury. Change indeed for us both, a forceful entry into a new world of disability, medics and carers… of uprooting from a home of forty years and ultimately reweaving the pieces of life.

Susan Lee Kerr’s second haiku collection, Learning to Leave, gathers sixty-five luminous moments — everyday fragments reimagined, life’s challenges met, where haiku and art quietly mend the heart’s tapestry, one healing breath at a time.

— Iliyana Stoyanova, President, British Haiku Society

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