Remembering

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The second in Five Leaves’ series of debut poetry pamphlets byEast Midlands writers. Remembering includes poems based on the few facts JulieGardner knows about the early life of he r mother, who diedsuddenly at the age of forty-seven. These poems are fictional yetsymphonic in their scope and show how a whole life story can bebuilt up from the simple knowledge of a person’s existence. Asecond sequence, about Julie’s husband, Arthur, who died in 2008,is very real, raw yet tender and full of blessings. These poems are written by a grandmother in the hope that hergranddaughters will read them and know that she loved and wasloved. Read in combination, the stand-alone poems and the twosequences shine with that love. Show more