Dearbhla Mescal’s handsome new book charts how her life changed irrevocably after a cancer diagnosis and how kind messages from online followers inspired this wise and uplifting poetry collection
Dearbhla Mescal, author of Finding Joy
If ‘April is the cruellest month,’ as TS Eliot once famously wrote in The Waste Land, then surely this January was one of the wettest of months. No wonder then that in the throes of such rainy weather I was delighted to come upon a new collection of poetry, Finding Joy by Dearbhla Mescal, which put a spring in my step, made the bleak and damp days brighter.
In her introduction, Mescal describes how a meaningful conversation with a friend a few years ago set her off on an unexpected personal journey. “I heard somewhere that if you reach 28 days of anything, it will become part of your daily practice,” she writes.