Where the Light Waits

by Susan Ioannou

Where the Light Waits pulls together light and shadow, stray thought and unravelling feeling, the past and the future -- and listens for the silence resonating between, for that hint of assymetrical order. The poems grapple with the larger issues yet take the time to paint steel beams or violets with striking clarity.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Born in Toronto, Susan Ioannou holds an Honours B.A. and M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. For many years she worked with Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly/Magazine as Associate Editor and Columnist.

Susan has given numerous presentations to writers' groups, as well as workshops for the Toronto Board of Education, Ryerson University, and the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. To consolidate her activities as teacher, editor, and writer, she founded Wordwrights Canada, through which until 2017 she also offered the online writer's course Lessons in Writing the Poem. After publication of Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth, later republished as Poems on Geology, Metals, Minerals, and Mining, her interest in Canada's mineral industry earned her the name The Mining Poet.

Some of her poems have been set to music by a Canadian and a Norwegian composer, as well as translated into Hindi and Dutch.

Her current professional memberships include The League of Canadian Poets and The Writers' Union of Canada. A widow, she is mother to a daughter and a son.