by Helen Tomblin | Mar 19, 2025
During the COVID 19 lockdown when her brother Jon died alone of COVID in January 2021 aged fifty-three, Maggie Parsons wrote out poems that gave her strength and helped to express her feelings. She hung the poems on a tree outside her house for others to read and has...
by Diane Parkes | Apr 6, 2023
In September 2017, Helen Calcutt’s brother Matthew took his own life. He was 40 years old. ‘… the phone rang / and when I answered it / you’d killed / yourself, and that was the start / of you being dead.’ This is the starting point of an astonishing new pamphlet of...
