2020 The Year We Will Not Forget: Forty Festive Poems for an Extraordinary Christmas

Dellow, Virginia C

ISBN 10: 1716531780 / ISBN 13: 9781716531781

Verlag: Lulu.com 2020-10, 2020

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-IUK-9781716531781

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: 2020 The Year We Will Not Forget: Forty Festive Poems for an Extraordinary Christmas
• Verlag: Lulu.com 2020-10
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1716531780
• ISBN-13: 9781716531781
• Einband: PF
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

2020 has been a year like no other with the rules of our world being rewritten, etching their way into the history books. Each day has exactly physical and emotional trauma on so many with millions affected by Covid_19. Thousands upon thousands of people who have lost loved ones or who have fought this disease on the frontline now have to live through the reality of the devastation left in its wake. Others have had to completely re-order their lives with the burden of financial and health worries being imprinted on their daily life from the economic fallout through to the psychological ramifications of these times. Still more have had to face struggles with loneliness and mental health with days blending into weeks of shapeless unending relentlessness. And others moreover have had to learn to juggle teaching their children whilst also holding onto precarious jobs working and living from home. The pandemic has touched the lives of each and every person in a year like no other. As we have moved through the year, festivals have taken on new directions with many a celebration completely altered from the traditions of previous years. Christmas then will doubtless need to blend as well. This book then recalls Christmas past with some specially written for Christmas 2020. Forty festive poems in an extraordinary year.

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Virginia started writing again in 2009 when she was diagnosed with a chronic health condition, finding the process cathartic. She subsequently penned her first book in 2011 taking a multi-perspective look at divorce before writing and publishing a further short story a year later. In 2013/14 she went onto undertake a year-long challenge to blog a poem a day at ginzandtonic.com. This is her first book of poetry. Having had several poems published by other organisations over the years, she wanted to mark the year of the global Covid_19 pandemic by publishing a short collection of Christmas poetry with some specific Covid references. She hopes that her poetry will encourage anyone and everyone to use poetry as a means to express their feelings and to be able to give flight to their thoughts, hopes and dreams. With a background in psychology and behaviour change practice, she believes passionately that poetry can be used to promote wellbeing whereby expressive writing be a means of eliciting and reframing life's experiences. Growing up she enjoyed a Pam Ayres ditty but with a love for the North Cornish Coast and frequent holidays in the area throughout her life, it is probably no surprise that she cites John Betjeman as her main inspiration. She blogs her poetry at www.ginzandtonic.co.uk