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                   KITH AND KIN (Sixties Press 2004) 

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BRENDA WILLIAMS

NAMELESS IN CAMDEN

They come to me like wraiths out of the mist

Lost insignificant the dispossessed

Searching for their shadow mislaid or missed

Effaced from the day, they linger oppressed

Without end with the knowledge of someone

Since forgotten that will not go away,

They pass with only their own reflection

For consolation outstaring the day

The outlandish night left there endlessly

Merging as an early oblivion

And into everything they cannot see.

And sometimes in dreams in low light unshone,

From echoes remembered something is heard

Yet recurring mnemonic and conferred.

31 October–6 November 2003

They trace the heel of the day forever

In front with something of a life straight from

The heart as they react between after

And before, held in its arc as they come

And go with a truth that has come apart

And a name’s echo they cannot go back

To, a future that refuses to start,

That stalling lies abandoned in its track.

The last light of a day is all there is

Left, the sudden footsteps falling away

Throbbing endlessly through the arteries

Of a life on hold with nowhere to lay

Its head, hollowing out a centrifuge

An open dark without any refuge.

7-12 November 2003

One Carer’s Story - Barry Tebb       Schizophrenia - A Carer’s Journal - Mike

     Schizophrenia – A Mother’s Story – Georgina Wakefield                         My Journey Of Sadness – Stan Hagon

                                       The Voice Of Carers – Amanda Cummin           Yemeni Carers’ Stories – Debjani Chaterjee

   Beyond Our Reach, But Not Our Love – Brian D’arcy                        Carry On Caring – Emily Machin & Lucy Machin

     Enigma And Other Poems - Georgina Wakefield                        Killingbeck Drive – Brenda Williams

      Searching The Beyond And Other Poems – Daisy Abey     Sharp Edge – Daisy Abey     The Long Good Bye – Barry Tebb

      Looking Back – Barry Tebb     Nameless In Camden – Brenda Williams      Autobiography – Simon Jenner      

The Sick Image Of My Father Fades – John Horder      Are You A Carer?      Caring About Carers