Life's Poetry is part memoir, part soulful exploration of the landscape of grief. Part prose and part poetry. Within Life's Poetry, Nicola invites you to come to the intimacy of grief, to no longer turn away from the very thing that can bring you closer to life. Through her own experiences Nicola takes you on a journey so that you may come to know beauty amongst the devastation, amongst the heartbreak and the pain.
We're living in times where life is punctuated by grief, where a day may not go by where grief doesn't touch us in some way. Where our grief is no longer just personal, but collective. Human to human, human to earth, and animal kin, we are all grieving. This is a book of life, love, death and grief. It's about how even grief can be ordinary, that we may just have forgotten this essential nature of our lives.
Nicola Duffell tends to grief and soul. She knows the deepest, darkest heartbreak that comes from experiencing loss and death. And still she's someone who fiercely believes in the beauty of this life. She is intimately moved by the wonder and grace of what it means to be human in this world.
Nicola is dedicated to bringing grief out of the shadows. She believes that through tending grief - personal, collective and systemic - we can transform, not only our inner landscape, but the landscape for future generations. Nicola provides a place of belonging when life gets difficult, when loss becomes unbearable and when foundations weaken. Her work spans multiple contexts and modalities - writing, storytelling, guiding fellow humans in her community, in hospices, and diving into the deep waters of grief through the programmes she offers.
