Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Christel Wiinblad flippant – about the early

flippant – about the early stages of Parkinson's Disease

backgrounds to the material of which The Release is composed

as well as additional poems from two early collections

a lament for the nearing extinction of the white fronted goose

much only recently uncovered

Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Christel Wiinblad flippant – about the earlyMany of these poems resonate with a sense of loss, not morbidly so, but almost as a contradiction where our emptiness can make us capable of compassion. The background music, or the place of origin for this work is always the narrative of emotion. The centrepiece of this collection is a sequence of poems called Sonnets of a Hospital Lift, telling the story of death and dying in a NHS hospital. We write to catch meaning, to shine light on this