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| The Weight of Words |
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| How it all began |
How the Book Began:
The idea for the book first came to me
when I was recovering from an eating disorder,
and wrote vast amounts of poetry, during
sleepless nights. One of the rooms in the
hospital had a selection of poems framed on the
walls and when reading them I was overcome with
an immense sense of déjà-vu, it was as if I
had written them, they were the same thought,
feelings, and emotions I had been struggling with
and expressed myself.
This was combined with a sense of reassurance
that these people had also faced the same battle
in the same room, but ultimately recovered and
moved on. It occurred to me that it would be an
amazing thing to publish a book of poems that
sufferers and their families could read.
- To provide comfort and
support for sufferers
- To demonstrate the everyday
realties of living with an eating
disorder, as expressed through poetry and
biography.
- To offer sufferers an
example of a less destructive way of
expressing emotions
Why
Poems?
Poetry is unique in the way that it allows a
writer to enter into a stream of consciousness
that writing prose does not, since the author is
unhindered by the usual laws of language and
grammar. Thus it seems to provide many people
with a form of cathartic relief that other
writing does not
Why Biography?
The book was later expanded to include short
biographies since this form of prose depicts the
cause, evolution, and recovery from an eating
disorder in a way that poetry cannot.Tiger Claw
Books was set up in 2001 to print an anthology of
poetry on behalf of The Emma Fulham Poetry Book
Appeal.
Tiger Claw Books is a non-profit making
organisation, since the profits from the sales of
the book are donated to eating disorder related
charities
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