The Insistent Garden (45 page)

The author gratefully acknowledges use of extracts from the following books and poems:

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
Thomas Gray (1750)

ELYSIUM IS AS FAR AS TO
— Emily Dickinson (1860)

SNOWSHILL MANOR
— Wall engraving

THE LADY OF SHALOTT
— Lord Alfred Tennyson (1833)

THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN
— William Robinson (1883)

MENDING WALL
— Robert Frost (1914)

ODE ON MELANCHOLY
— John Keats (1884)

HAVING IT OUT WITH MELANCHOLY
— Jane Kenyon (1993)

SONNET 30
— William Shakespeare (1590)

TITLE UNKNOWN
— Ukifune / Gengi Monogatari (12th century)

COME SLOWLY, EDEN
— Emily Dickinson (1860)

THE RAVEN
— Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

WHO EVER LOVED, THAT LOVED NOT AT FIRST SIGHT
— Christopher Marlowe (1593)

SNOWSHILL GARDENS, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
— Wall engraving

THE SONG OF THE WRENS
— Alfred Tennyson (1867)

ROSE
— William Carlos Williams (1923)

ROSIE CHARD
grew up on the edge of the North Downs, a range of low hills south of London,
UK
. After studying Anthropology and Environmental Biology, she went on to qualify as a landscape architect at the University of Greenwich and practiced for several years in England, Denmark and Canada. She and her family emigrated to Winnipeg in 2005 where she qualified as an English Language teacher at the University of Manitoba.

She is now based in Brighton, England, where she currently works as a freelance editor and language teacher. Her first novel,
Seal Intestine Raincoat,
was published in 2009 by NeWest Press; it went on to win the 2010 Trade Fiction Book Award at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards, and received an honourable mention for the Sunburst Fiction Award. She was also shortlisted in 2010 for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer.