Imperfect Beginnings lays its poems out to rest on uncertain terrain. Visa paperwork deadlines hang in the air. New-borns, torn too early from their mother's breast, learn to adapt to harsh guardianship. Belonging and exile are mirrored in the stories of having to leave one's birthmother-or motherland. From narrative poems such as 'My Father Sold Cigarettes To The Nazis', Fogel takes us on a journey throughout history, spanning ancestry, wartime, adoption and peacetime, as life settles. Family, work, love and the natural world provide purpose, meaning and a sense of coming 'home'.

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About the Author
Viv Fogel's poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies since the mid-70's. She has a collection Without Question 2006 and two pamphlets (Witness 2013 and How it is ... 2018) Her poems and her work are influenced by having been adopted by refugee Holocaust survivors. London based, once an art teacher, involved with community, social housing and education projects, and since the mid-80's has worked as a psychotherapist. She is a grandmother to 3 dual-heritage grandchildren. www.vivfogel.co.uk


Book Information
ISBN 9781913211981
Author Viv Fogel
Format Paperback
Page Count 82
Imprint Fly on the Wall Press
Publisher Fly on the Wall Press