Hope, Beauty and Friendship

This selection of poems by a new author was triggered by the tragic death of his 28-year-old daughter. So the collection begins with loss and the aftermath of loss: the hope of the author that his daughter and he may be reunited in the life to come. This hope underlies many of the poems. This is clearly articulated in `Osler and Son', where a father grieves for loss of his son in World War I but in a stoical, unexpressed manner.

The author records his childhood experience of emotions being h...