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    Insides: Dragonscale Delvings, #1
    Insides: Dragonscale Delvings, #1
    Insides: Dragonscale Delvings, #1
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    Insides: Dragonscale Delvings, #1

    By Freya Pickard

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    One woman's journey through cancer, chemotherapy and beyond.

     

    "Freya here expresses the full scope (of cancer), in her own way, of the rigors of the experience, and, I think, puts it in a form that fully describes its horrors as well as hope." Troy

     

    This is a poetic account of Freya Pickard's horrendous experience of bowel cancer.

     

    Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she undergoes several major operations to remove the tumour and then endures 6 months of chemotherapy. Only after that can she begin to recover. In order to cope with what she was experiencing, Freya wrote notes and poems in her journal nearly every day.

     

    If you or anyone you know is going through cancer treatment of any kind, this is a book you have to read.

     

    Freya knows. Freya understands. Freya survived.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreya Pickard
    Release dateJan 7, 2017
    ISBN9781386590910
    Insides: Dragonscale Delvings, #1
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    Freya Pickard

    Pushcart Prize nominee, Freya Pickard, is the quirky, unusual author of The Kaerling series, an epic fantasy set in the strange and wonderful world of Nirunen. A cancer survivor, she writes mainly dark fantasy tales and creates expressive poetry in order to leach the darkness from her soul. Her aim in life is to enchant, entertain and engage with readers through her writing. She finds her inspiration in the ocean, the moors, beautifully written books and vinyl music (particularly heavy metal and rock). She enjoys Hatha Yoga, Bhangra and Yogalates and in her spare time creates water colours and pastel drawings of the worlds in her head.

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      Insides - Freya Pickard

      Insides

      For Maggi, Chris & Mr Miller

      First published in 2016.

      Copyright © by Freya Pickard 2016

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission of the publishers.

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form whether printed or electronic other than that in which it is published.

      Front Cover picture by Freya Pickard © 2016.

      Cover design by Jonathon B. Hoyt.

      A hard path is the one Freya Pickard travelled for over twelve months. A new chapter in her life which deprived her of her usual energy, of her health, of her serenity: the battle she had to endure against something which is too huge, too painful even to mention; cancer. A struggle she managed to win or at least come to terms with, despite all the pain, suffering and trouble it entailed. But in the end, she was able to overcome and defeat it, through a long, cumbersome, insightful and thoughtful process, enabled by her deep inner strength, by her rooted desire to survive, by writing and being creative, by her tenacious attachment to life. She endured her battle against cancer and consequently discovered new aspects of her personality, a new strength: Freya, the life warrior.

      In this poetry collection, Freya makes use of a variety of poetic forms, such as blank verse, Haiku, Tanka, Cinquain, Elfje, Lantune, Clippings and Freyan Verse, which she masters with incredible ability and talent, making the collection multi-coloured and intense.

      Insides depicts this complex inner path in the most detailed, realistic and intimate way, carrying the reader through painful and profoundly overwhelming experiences to a territory of peace, final relief and resolution, like a wound unfolding and gradually healing through the hard process of awareness and acceptance, but finally leading to an inner metamorphosis.

      In the first part of her work, Colostomy, Freya needs to call things by their proper names, to mention everything which is being performed on/in her body, everything which occurs to her, feeling the urge to become familiar with a completely new dimension, to take control of it, to get nearer the devastating reality that is about to devour her entire life. On the other hand, after such an experience of great suffering, she starts feeling relief again, I am being, observing nature with new eyes, breathing the healing atmosphere of the summer time. A sort of being in tune with nature and the landscape, of feeling part of a whole, of trusting...

      In the second part, Surgery, we come across her reliance on God and his plans; in prayerlike verses she expresses her feeling of safety in His hands; but then, once again, she describes herself as forlorn, abandoned, lonely, all emotions that gain the upper hand over her hopes and beliefs. And at this point, an outburst of tears, compassion and care

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