Reflecting on Your Everyday Experience #1
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver This meditation is taken from my memoir ‘The Grace of...
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Thoughts from my editor
It was back in October 2016 that I contacted Helen to ask whether she would be interested in editing my memoir. This is what she says about...
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Designing the book cover
Both the title ’The Grace of a Nightingale’ and the cover design have various connotations – nature, nursing, freedom, spirituality (the...
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Finding the right editor
How do you choose the best editor for your work when there are hundreds of highly skilled and experienced ones to choose from? How do you know who...
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #17
Poppy Appeal A centenary Of single, scarlet petals Lest we should forget This bold sacrifice Rivers of blood, and heartache For those left behind...
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #16
Wedding Haiku Share each other’s lives In many ways. Go gently, Special friends always. Lesley Young – Writer and Poet ...
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #15
Identity Crisis She was looking for herself In all the usual places Seeking a connection But finding just blank spaces She’d tried the church and...
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #14
On Becoming a University Lecturer I imagined this place would be grand With spires, and Eminent professors with spectacles And flowing gowns...
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Lesley Young – Selected Poems #13
I can resist anything but temptation * You’ll never be left on the shelf Reclining there so provocatively In your skimpy white robe...
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