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PUBLISHER: Wild Goose Publications

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781804322802

RRP: £10.40

PAGES: 88

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 3, 2023

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Joy Mead

Poems written during an emotional time of absence and loss. Out of the shadows, the darkness, and often the injustice, the need to lament and mourn goes hand in hand with the special significance of small moments and ordinary occasions.

Joy Mead

Joy Mead is a member of the Iona Community and the author of several books including The One Loaf, Making Peace in Practice and Poetry, Where are the Altars?, Words and Wonderings, A Way of Knowing, Glimpsed in Passing and Walking Our Story, all published by Wild Goose Publications. She has been involved in development education and justice and peace work and occasionally leads creative writing groups.

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