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I want to write a book of experiences and dreams, I don't just want to leave sheets of paper that will never be seen. I would like the book to be like a mind alive on a shelf, From which my voice could go out and, hopefully, help others to find themselves. Once I was lost, now I am free - this is the overriding theme of this collection of poetry. Charting the many times that things have been difficult in her life, Margaret Steggles exp...

While many of Margaret Steggles' poems are vivid celebrations of life, of new dawnings and opportunities and the strange beauty of seascapes and the night sky, there is a darker underlying theme - that of escape from the tyranny of the past. As a nurse, wife and mother, the poet clearly found she was living in another's shadow, and was never able to know herself. As she says, she was 'lost beneath the labels' and seemed to belong to someone...