Kate Swaffer’s first Poetry book, “Love, Life, Loss A roller-coaster of poetry”
a collection of poems featuring living with the diagnosis of younger onset dementia.
“Powerful poems, such as ‘Stolen Dreams’, reflect a strength of spirit and
wry sense of humour: at the onset of dementia Swaffer writes, ‘he said …
please don’t call me by your ex-husband’s name/and at this we laughed
out loud’. In this honest, accessible collection there are sarcastic digs at
modern technology; snapshots of nature and university life; and poems
about illness, suicide and relationships. You’ll meet ordinary people like ‘A
Washing Lady’ – ‘who has tired legs/waiting for varicose veins’. At times
the poet is ‘rudderless in a storm’; yet with eyes wide open, she keenly
observes and notes some universal joys, sorrows and simple truths
through mortality’s zoom lens.” Jude Aquilina, 2012
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