“Other
People” is about innocence and experience and how our
lives are shaped and changed by the people that we meet. It starts
with the author’s childhood as a war baby, looking longingly
at the photo of a father she has never seen sitting in uniform
on a camel, an animal she has never seen, followed by two poems
about her grandparents and the family secret about who her grandfather
was…whilst the bulk of the poems are about the (often extraordinary)
people who have influenced her. She also takes a wry look at present-day
society, the Iraq war, the “war on terror” and
the rise of opinionated evangelists, both theist and atheist. The
book ends with the question we all ask ourselves — what if
it had all been different?
“Other
People” is about innocence and experience and how our
lives are shaped and changed by the people that we meet. It starts
with the author’s childhood as a war baby, looking longingly
at the photo of a father she has never seen sitting in uniform
on a camel, an animal she has never seen, followed by two poems
about her grandparents and the family secret about who her grandfather
was…whilst the bulk of the poems are about the (often extraordinary)
people who have influenced her. She also takes a wry look at present-day
society, the Iraq war, the “war on terror” and
the rise of opinionated evangelists, both theist and atheist. The
book ends with the question we all ask ourselves — what if
it had all been different?