An anthology providing emotional support with poems by Wendy Cope (6), Julia Darling (4), U.A. Fanthorpe (3), D.H. Lawrence (3), Jo Shapcott (3), etc. There's an "Index of emotions".
I liked "Out-patients" (Satyamurti), "After visiting hours" (UA Fanthorpe), "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" (Dinkinson), "Brief reflection on the word pain" (Holub), "The unprofessionals" (UA Fanthorpe), "Damaged" (Donald Adamson), "Do not do gentle into that good night" (Dylan Thomas).
I was surprised to read in one of the section introductions that "Novelists can use their imagination, but poets have to write from the heart" (p.42).
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