In Memory - by Allan Sutherland from the words of Catriona Grant

10 June 2011

I remember the stroke

I remember the stroke. 
That was a big event.
So all the things that happened
before the stroke
were all really important. For
after the stroke,
there was three years
I didn’t know what I was doing. 

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22 November 2011

Sarah Playforth

The immense power of the personal imagery in the words Allan has created really hit me; I had planned to read a couple of poems but then I could not stop - my tears were from recognition not pity. Catriona's voice reached deep inside me and I feel as if I have met her myself. This collection should be on school curriculums, it conveys a message that is so wonderfully prosaic yet so profound that "we are all one".

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