Tag: The Wandering Poet

I decided almost as soon as she died tow rite my mother’s life story. But for it to be a literary biography, while the day-to-day inquiry may be left to future historians of English poetry, I was helped by her own writings about her childhood and life, by hundreds of letters from husbands, friends and…

… someone you grew up with and was your mother is not easy. Shänne Sands died in 2016 and up to this year I was drawing around the edges, taking snippets here and there from letters and what i know and of course, her poems and diaries. But I couldn’t take too much at one…