My Immortal Mother
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by Carol Cooper THE STORY Some writers say they have a ‘knot’ they keep worrying at that makes them write. Maybe my mother, Wendy, has been my knot. I always knew I would write about her after her death, when I was no longer caught up in the intense, all-consuming business of being her […]
Valediction Forbidding Mourning
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by Katy Walker THE STORY This piece takes its name from John Donne’s poem of the same name. I checked my emails on the way home from a conference on antibiotic resistance and there was a round robin email asking for my favourite poem. I sent them ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’, a beautiful, […]