This looks as though it will be a good read. Author Max Porter, based in England, will be talking about his book at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May. For more about this book, go to the Sydney Writers’ Festival Blog What we’re reading pt. 18 http://www.swf.org.au/blog/2017/01/what-were-reading-pt-18/
When Mark’s partner Jane died, he didn’t expect the reaction of her family.
“Grief is the unavoidable consequence of ‘letting go’,” says Catholic priest Monsignor Tony Doherty. Tony has sat with families and friends at the bedside of the dying on many occasions during his 50 years as a priest. “One of life’s fundamental human equations goes like this: the more you … Read more
When does grief become abnormal? And if we don’t see it in medical terms soon enough, do we lose chances to help?
“Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other,” Jandy Nelson. Jahanvi Sardana writes We grieve because we love. How lucky we are to have experienced that love. Illustrator Gary Andrews uses drawing to cope with the loss of his wife Joy, his great love. Sandra Moon … Read more
“Now tough blokes like us don’t have to worry about grief because we just get on with it, right?” Anthony suggested, to nods from thirty other men huddled in the man cave. Wrong. (We weren’t exactly huddled, either. It was a balmy Sydney evening and the men were sitting … Read more