Böcker av Pamela Haines

The poems in this collection interact with the image of a web in a variety of ways, with a unifying thread-of claiming our connection and belonging-running through.There many ways of seeing and tending webs. We are all in the center of our own web of relationships, and much of the work of our lives is a steady tending to those connections. There is the web of social relationships that make up a wider culture, and our common work of tending the safety net, strengthening the frayed places, mending the holes, making sure no one falls through. There is the great web of life that sustains us all, and the work of locating and claiming our place by paying attention to all the other parts that make up that great whole. There is our attitude toward our own work and whether we see it as a linear series of tasks to be crossed off when completed or a web of relationships and opportunities with our love at the center. As there are many ways of envisioning a web, there are also many skills and dispositions involved in its tending, and the reader is invited to breathe through its order. Breathe in as we connect, touching the potential of relationship everywhere. Breathe out as we extend, stretching to new connections, new possibilities. Breathe in as we notice, taking in the reality of the world around us. Breathe out as we engage, bringing our energy and intention to act into a relationship. Breathe in as we receive, noticing the process of taking in what nourishes us. Breathe out as we mend, bringing greater wholeness to that which may be broken or in need of repair. Breathe in as we rest, putting attention to that which restores. Breathe out as we celebrate, giving thanks to all that brings joy. Breathe in as we grieve, naming that which is lost. Breathe out as we tend, doing the quiet work of nurturing the life around and within us. Continue breathing as we reset, open to things not being as they seem, present to the potential of a world made new.The inspiration for these poems is the everyday encounter, mediated by compassion, sensitivity and grit. Affirmed by what she has experienced, the poet in return affirms the world around her, in this way tending the web of life.

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An outstanding novel of romance and grief in the aftermath of the Great War From a comfortable childhood in Edwardian Yorkshire, through the pain and grief of the First World War, Edwina dreamed of Men on White Horses. But the Age of Chivalry was dead. After the cataclysm, nothing could ever be the same again - and even Italy in the twenties, with its promise of romance and fulfilment, seemed to proclaim an end of hope. Redolent of a lost era, rich in drama and characterisation, the fabulous novel by the award-winning author of A Kind Of War.

'I didn't realise that for want of one person the world could be meaningless.' Blissfully in love for the first time, seventeen-year-old Polly thus confides to her grandmother, Muff. And these words could equally well have been spoken by Muff, or Polly's mother, Tessie. Muff can never forget her beloved brother Con, killed in the First World War, and Tessie has never recovered from the loss of her great childhood friend, Mike. Both women have married, but their lives are unfulfilled and haunted by cherished memories - Muff looks back longingly to her youth when she was a great beauty and mourns the frailty of old age, and Tessie sadly contemplates her failures: as wife, mother and woman. This sensitive story of women and love across three generations moves in time between the early part of the century, the Second World War and the Seventies. An elegantly written novel, it is both funny and sad, remarkable for its perceptive treatment of human weakness.

Is at the heart of village life, and marks the beginning of the Squire's land. It is the rescue of Squire Ingham's son by the Irish servant-girl which creates the uneasy bond between Sarah, the respectable family into which she marries, and the Squire's family. But it is Kate, the foundling Sarah adopts, whose doomed, forbidden love for the young Squire forces the families into explosive confrontation. A grand saga, set in all the beauty and pride of Yorkshire, amid the power and excitement of the Victorian era.