Gill Hartley

"After my son Will died at the age of twenty two, I found myself writing poetry at an extraordinary rate, sometimes as many as three poems a day. When I finally stopped, just over a year later, I had written around one hundred poems, all dedicated to my son."

			NEW BOOK OUT NOW

		ASPECTS OF LOSS - A companion in Bereavement In this, her second book since the death of her son Will at age 22, Gill provides a book to pick up at any time and dip into. Written from the depths of experience, this book will help any journeying through bereavement and faces full-on the predicament of a culture that does not help bring grief into the open. This substantial paperback contains Will's story plus chapters dealing with different Aspects of Loss. The book is interspersed with quotations and poems from both the author's own and other published works. Illustrations by Diane Brazier. Foreword by Michael Rosen. ISBN 978 086071 655 6.

	Author's profits and royalties from all book sales are donated to 'The Compassionate Friends'

Available online from Moorleys Print & Publishing at £8.95




Gill's first book, "My True Son", the story of a journey through loss narrated in poems, is also available from the same publishers.

No One Came

No one called, no-one came,
just like yesterday, just the same.
Endless minutes rolled into one,
"Over my grief?" I've barely begun
to accept the truth that you have gone.

The time crawls by,
drip feeding the knowledge
that I watched you die.
Truth so appalling, that still I deny
and echo the question,
"Why, God, Why?"

Gill Hartley, May 2006


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	For further help with child bereavement: Child Bereavement Charity, The Compassionate Friends, The Child Death Helpline, Bereaved Parents Network, Alive Alone, The Laura Centre (Leicester), Edward's Trust (Birmingham)