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Poems of Love and Loss
Beautifully crafted with colour and black & white photographs
Valerie wrote In Due Season, a collection of poetry sub-titled Poems of Love and Loss, as an expression of her feelings during the last year of her husband's life. Writing became her coping strategy, a way of dealing with the experiences and emotions that the passing months brought.
The book of poems is both a chronicle of a year of great sorrow and great joy, and a recollection of Noel and Valerie's lives together. It is also a tribute to a remarkable man, and the richness of the marriage that Noel and Valerie shared.
The poetry is varied in both form and mood, ranging from formal and measured sonnets and rhymed poems, to the more anguished raw emotion of the free-verse poems. Throughout, there is a personal tone which makes this poetry accessible to all readers.
