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THE
BOOK OF HOPES AND DREAMS
is a charity
anthology of poetry, which will raise funds for Spirit Aid's operations in the Baglan
Province on North East Afghanistan, providing mobile clinics, doctors, nurses
and medical supplies for the region, where there has been virtually no
medical facilities for the past quarter of a century.
As well as raising money for charity, the aim of The Book Of Hopes And Dreams
is to help spread the spirit of optimism and activism as a counter-balance to
the negativity and ennui that seem so prevalent today. The poetry in this
book is generally unfashionably positive in outlook: full of the power of
hopes and dreams. Read this book and you may well find yourself infected with
optimism, even in the face of so much overwhelming evidence from the
pessimists. If the infection takes hold, who knows what will happen? Maybe
you will become one of those people who actually tries to do something to
help to change the way things are - stepping boldly away from the majority,
who prefer to just moan about it.
There has been a fantastic buzz about The Book Of Hopes And Dreams right from
the start; and contributions have been received from a huge array of
well-respected and award-winning poets, including: Simon Armitage, Margaret
Atwood, Moniza Alvi, Alan Brownjohn, David Constantine, Cyril Dabydeen, Carol
Anne Duffy, Ian Duhig, Ruth Fainlight, Vicki Feaver, Elaine Feinstein,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Ades Fishman, Magi Gibson, Alasdair Gray, Tony
Harrison, John Heath-Stubbs, Michael Horovitz, Mimi Khalvati, Tom Leonard,
Robert Mezey, Edwin Morgan, Lawrence Sail, Penelope Shuttle, Jon Stallworthy
& Anne Stevenson.
Read more about The Book Of Hopes And Dreams, including the biographies of
all the contributors, click here
Read David Hayman's article about Spirit Aid's mission in Afghanistan. Click here.
What
do the critics think? Read
reviews of The Book Of Hopes And Dreams here
The Book Of Hopes And Dreams was published in November 2006. It can be
ordered in any High Street bookstore in the UK. You can also buy it online from Bluechrome
or Amazon
(UK) or Waterstones
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