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For readers who value honest poetry about family, memory and finding joy alongside grief. Louise Walker explores the lasting impact of losing a brother, while making room for music, travel and the unexpected pleasures of living after loss. Alongside her exploration of the long-lasting impact of a losing a sibling early, something that will resonate with others, the poet touches on wider subjects that provide light and colour.
Meditating on memories and family photos, she confronts the impact of bereavement head-on, but also celebrates unexpected joy, as she embarks on her first flute lessons and pilgrimages of all kinds, finally coming full circle ‘getting at last/to the heart of things’.
Louise Walker was born in Southport and now lives in London. After reading English at Magdalen College, Oxford, where she was a member of the Florio Society, she taught English for 35 years at girls’ schools. Highly Commended in the Frosted Fire Firsts Award and longlisted in The Alchemy Spoon Pamphlet Competition, she was shortlisted in the Bedford Competition and won 3rd prize in the Ironbridge Poetry Competition. Commissions include Bampton Classical Opera and Gill Wing Jewellery for their showcase Poetry in Ocean.
This book is for anyone who has suffered loss and has been forced to discover a way of moving forward with their lives, working through the grief to finding the pleasures that can still be found.
Find out more here.
NB: If you are ordering for delivery outside the UK, please contact us via ditheringchaps@gmail.com to obtain the latest postal rates. Thank you.
For readers who value honest poetry about family, memory and finding joy alongside grief. Louise Walker explores the lasting impact of losing a brother, while making room for music, travel and the unexpected pleasures of living after loss. Alongside her exploration of the long-lasting impact of a losing a sibling early, something that will resonate with others, the poet touches on wider subjects that provide light and colour.
Meditating on memories and family photos, she confronts the impact of bereavement head-on, but also celebrates unexpected joy, as she embarks on her first flute lessons and pilgrimages of all kinds, finally coming full circle ‘getting at last/to the heart of things’.
Louise Walker was born in Southport and now lives in London. After reading English at Magdalen College, Oxford, where she was a member of the Florio Society, she taught English for 35 years at girls’ schools. Highly Commended in the Frosted Fire Firsts Award and longlisted in The Alchemy Spoon Pamphlet Competition, she was shortlisted in the Bedford Competition and won 3rd prize in the Ironbridge Poetry Competition. Commissions include Bampton Classical Opera and Gill Wing Jewellery for their showcase Poetry in Ocean.
This book is for anyone who has suffered loss and has been forced to discover a way of moving forward with their lives, working through the grief to finding the pleasures that can still be found.
Find out more here.
NB: If you are ordering for delivery outside the UK, please contact us via ditheringchaps@gmail.com to obtain the latest postal rates. Thank you.