Sarah's Midnight Anthology

£6.99	Sarah Nock has loved poetry since she was a child, and over the years little wisps have clung to her and settled, a line here, a stanza there. She is not an authority on poetry, she is the first to admit that, and has not read widely, but she has been receptive. This anthology is really a companion volume to her popular “Ponderings on Parkinson’s” in which she reflects on her twenty years’ experience of that malady, and realises the tremendous power of the spoken word to help ease pain and lighten spirits. So now it was time to call them in, those verses which had slipped into her consciousness. With the help, among many others, of The Dictionary of Quotations and the Internet, they were gathered together into a deeply satisfying collection: classics or almost unknown, funny, sad or just plain beautiful. There to defend against those bad times when medication is low, sleep won’t come, pain kicks in — times when poetry is the only balm. Poems should be read aloud, that is the nature of them so grab anyone, old or young, related or startled, and set them to reading. You will be doing them an inestimable favour, too. For all who have to grapple with life’s midnight hours, for whatever reason, this is a most pleasing collection and one that will ultimately enhance their lives .

 

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