"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"
"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."
""I heard somewhere that if you reach 28 days of anything, it will become part of your daily practice," she writes."
A cancer diagnosis changed life irrevocably and triggered a search for meaning and joy. A meaningful conversation about forming new habits led to a commitment to daily practice framed by the idea that 28 days can make an action routine. Kind, supportive messages from online followers provided encouragement and influenced the tone of reflective, hopeful poems. The poems combine candidness about illness with resilient humor and small, everyday observations to brighten bleak moments. The narrative moves from fear and dampness toward gratitude, presence, and discovering joy through simple practices and human connection.
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