Weaving Yarn

Weaving Yarn is a deeply meaningful collection of poetry from Jonathan Richards.

“This collection weaves science, faith and wonder at the world together as threads and as anecdotes: my marks upon the page.”

After a long career in medicine as a GP and in other roles, it also displays his caring and compassionate nature as a true person of faith.

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Some reactions to Weaving Yarn

Jonathan Richards writes with such candour and compassion : with the imagination of the poet and the keen eye of the physician. Indignation has its rightful place within his work , but always tempered with empathy for those in suffering.

Mike Jenkins ( co-editor ‘Red Poets’)

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A generosity of spirit threads through this book from the foreword to the final page, acknowledging friends and mentors, family, past patients, fellow scientists and the many visual artists who inspire the work. Unassuming and yet unafraid to take on large ideas about language, questions of the spirit or insights close to home about himself, Jonathan Richards shows the workings of a life that finds clues to its wholeness in the work of poetry.

Philip Gross

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Jonathon Richards observes: The block of Carrera marble / was hiding David; trees with, Wintered limbs / in their ballerina pose and metaphor or fact or both, That scar that bleeds when you touch it. Elsewhere he addresses what confronts a poet; making sense of our sensations, we live and Silence is beneath thought / above understanding.

Ric Hool

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