A Ghost Gum Leans Over

Myron Lysenko’s ‘a ghost gum leans over’ is bigger than most haiku books being published today.

The book is divided into sections or sequences, including his daughter’s battle with cancer spanning ten years; a year where a relationship breaks down and splits a family in two; a section of light poems, another of heavy poems and one about Lysenko’s local area in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria. The sixth section consists of haiku written for special occasions.