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A review by bookwomble
Healing Poetry by Susan Aires, Ravinder Raj, Susan Morrell, Neil Newcombe, Wendy Attwell, Deborah Gaye, Paul Henry, Barry Fox, Brian Allen, Katrina Lay, Jana Vera Greasley, Cynical Jo, Robert Frost, Laozi, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, W.H. Davies, tory, John Donne, Mark Randles, Lyn Weaver, Julie Darling, Chris Tutton, Terry Simpson, Val Wright, Louise Lotz, Ann Untermoser, Linda Colesgrave, Paul Regan, Emily Dickinson, Andrew Henry Smith, Albert Camus, Nicky Rumble
3.0
The poems collected here were mainly written by poets attending a series of Poetry as Healing workshops, and they are uneven in quality, albeit created for the worthy motive of battling depression.
That's not to say that they are entirely without merit, and I found the poem Honeysuckle by "tory" one which I enjoyed quite as much as those included from established poets such as Robert Frost and Christina Rossetti.
The first verse of Honeysuckle is:
I will weave the hedge this May,
I will warp and weft my way,
Back and forth my shuttle green -
Weaving, spinning country cream.
I took a chance in buying this slim volume, which I'm not sure was entirely repaid, but there are some poems here that I will read again, so neither was it a disappointment.
That's not to say that they are entirely without merit, and I found the poem Honeysuckle by "tory" one which I enjoyed quite as much as those included from established poets such as Robert Frost and Christina Rossetti.
The first verse of Honeysuckle is:
I will weave the hedge this May,
I will warp and weft my way,
Back and forth my shuttle green -
Weaving, spinning country cream.
I took a chance in buying this slim volume, which I'm not sure was entirely repaid, but there are some poems here that I will read again, so neither was it a disappointment.