This inspiring poetry collection explores one of the most painful subjects to make sense of in writing - caring for the dying and the dead. Drawing on the authors' work in hospices, these poems explore the experience of either supporting, or being, someone going through the physical changes and complex emotions that accompany ill-health and death.
This inspiring poetry collection explores one of the most painful subjects to make sense of in writing - caring for the dying and the dead. Drawing on the authors' work in hospices, these poems explore the experience of either supporting, or being, someone going through the physical changes and complex emotions that accompany ill-health and death.
Hilary Elfick is the author of six collections of poetry and a novel. She has been a hospice trustee for twenty years, and was International Co-ordinator, BT Voices for Hospices, 1992-97. She is a mother and grandmother and has also worked as a teacher and broadcaster. David Head has worked in hospice chaplaincy for fifteen years and is currently rector of six rural parishes in Norfolk. He has been a member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement since 1988.
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Foreword Dr Andrew Hoy Chairman of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland. Introduction Cynthia Fuller University of Newcastle. The Poems. List of previously published poems.
Foreword Dr Andrew Hoy Chairman of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland. Introduction Cynthia Fuller University of Newcastle. The Poems. List of previously published poems.
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