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Janet Braithwaite was born in Staffordshire in May 1939 and has spent most of her life in the Midlands. Her life-long interest in languages, culture and psychology and love of music, dance, art, travel and mountaineering led somewhat haphazardly to a B.A. in classics, her first job working for three and a half years in rural development in north west Greece and a subsequent working life divided between psychological development work with troubled adolescents and freelance teaching English to adult foreign students. In her thirties she trained and worked as an artist printmaker. Her prints, deeply influenced by her memories of the Greek landscape and her love of modern Greek poetry, have been exhibited in galleries in London including the Royal Academy’s Summer Show, and the Midlands. She has mountaineered in the Austrian Alps and the Pyrenees and journeyed extensively on foot through the mountains of Greece, and has taught English in Athens and Paris for a year each. The same themes which inspired her working life inform the subject matter of her book and design for its cover. |
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| Her first published work, it is a collection of recent drawings and poems written mainly since 1990 on the threshold of the second half of life. It is a celebration of love in all its permutations and of the joys of chance meetings with strangers and foreigners with all the enriching opportunities they bring for expanding horizons, experiencing different cultures and engaging with “the other”. Its ambition is to be deeply serious and light-heartedly humorous. | ||||||||||||
Letters on the Nature of Love
Silent Screams
Nubia Assata
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Silent Screams Nubia Assata Silent Screams is a radical insight to the trials and tribulations of young people, especially those intersecting ethnic minority groups. Positioned from an introspective standpoint, this anthology is able to open doors that would otherwise remain unchallenged. An honest take on the battle with mental health, politics, and black family dynamics, likens the poet to an incredibly mature author. Unapologetic whilst also careful, powerful whilst also soft, Nubia leans on her own experiences to draw parallels between herself and her history. To ultimately look forward to the future proposing the question of where do we go next? |
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Martin Glynn
This powerful and impacting collection is part of a continuing poetry legacy of black women such as; June Jordan, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Nikki Giovanni, and many other black women, whose poignant lyrical expression, with powerful social commentary, have formed the basis of liberating the many silent voices
Liz Pemberton
A raw and unfi ltered collection; Nubia’s poetry is fearless, it is tender, it is strong, and it is authentic
Pebbles of Inspiration
Daniela Svampa Cowie
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Pebbles of Inspiration Daniela Svampa Cowie I have had ample opportunity throughout my unsettled life-journey to ponder on the reflective passages and to focus on the positive quotes and reminders that I share in this rich collection. With their aid I hope to bring light and hope into your life. We all need a little extra inner sunshine and encouragement on those days when we walk in troubled waters - and on those days when we are flying high, may this book be an accompanying and reassuring guide. Read from the beginning or let your heart guide you to a page by chance. Either way, may it serve you, inspire and enrich your journey as you unveil your life. |
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Bimble in Crinklewood
James S M Parker
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Bimble in Crinklewood a jaunt through lavender teardrops with dEATH hell: a place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after dEATH. Bimble In Crinklewood: James S M Parker’s 5th book and conclusion to his own inferno brought on by the desertion of his father, the dEATH of his mother, battles with his own alcoholism, and, fight with depression and self-harm. |
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Who Are We But The Forgotten
James S M Parker
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Broken will always be Broken
James S M Parker
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We live our lives through reflections, see our guilt mirrored in glass eyes and shatter into tiny pieces impossible to glue back together. But we try. I tried. The death of my mother made me question love, suicide, life, death and sanity. On the way, I studied words in my own personal hell before realising that above everything else, I failed her. And so, I end my inferno with an answer to a question none of us are brave enough to ask… …broken will always be broken. |
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The Hungry Crow
James S M Parker
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The Hungry Crow Through poetry and a mid-section collection of short stories, James S M Parker attempts to make sense of broken relationships, unrequited love and the absolute loneliness life has now brought him. Harsh, uncompromising and as always, honest, The Hungry Crow speaks from the heart, weeps from the soul and revels in something lost never to be found again. |
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Policeman’s Prose
Tim Grace
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Policeman's Prose Tim Grace This is a collection of poems written over the last forty-five years: from childhood memories to life in Cyprus as a teenager in the 1970’s, to policing in London during the 1980s and 1990s and time with Customs and Excise. Tim is still in law enforcement. His current role is as an investigator with The Illegal Money Lending Team. He writes about mums and dads and daughters and discusses the question what is love? Homelessness is close to his heart, as the poem about the YMCA and The Tramp illustrates. Then there are his beloved pets, Captain and Brenda, both immortalised in verse. The author shares his raw emotions about Depression and thoughts of suicide and talks about tragedies such as Dunblane and the Twin Tower attacks. |
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In 2011 he reconnected with his childhood sweetheart Michelle and they married. They moved in together in 2013 when Tim moved to Birmingham where they currently live. He has one son and two married daughters, two sons-in-law, three granddaughters and a grandson on his way. |
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