Hello, I hope you have had a decent weekend though it was quite blowy and cool at times.
This week marks mental health awareness week and last year there were some amazing things at St Illtud's. I am delighted that this week we are all invited to dip in to various things, that should be of great interest to us. Follow the www.ghcp.church website as you wish.
I thought this week we would look at some poetry each day as well as later in the week pick up with our look at art.
Becky introduced me to Nikita Gill's poetry and it really does speak. Nikita was born in Belfast and brought up and educated in New Delhi,India. her love of writing became embedded when at 12 years of age had an article published in the newspaper about her Grandfather, as a young man in Kashmir.
“It was an incredible feeling, to give a story to people you do not know, and to know that they may take something away from it,”
She undertook undergraduate studies in New Delhi and then a Masters afterwards. She now has three books of poetry published and is only in her 30s.
It you wish to learn more about Nikita then here is a clip of her on BBC Radio 4 a few years ago and addressing whether poetry can be a form of therapy.
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