Virginia C DellowVirginia started writing again in 2009 when she was diagnosed with a chronic health condition, finding the process cathartic. She subsequently penned her first book in 2011 taking a multi-perspective look at divorce before writing and publishing a futher short story a year later. In 2013/14 she went onto undertake a year-long challenge to blog a poem a day at ginzandtonic.com. This is her first book of poetry. Having had several poems published by other organisations over the years, she wanted to mark the year of the global Covid_19 pandemic by publishing a short collection of Christmas poetry with some specific Covid references. She hopes that her poetry will encourage anyone and everyone to use poetry as a means to express their feelings and to be able to give flight to their thoughts, hopes and dreams. With a background in psychology and behaviour change practice, she believes passionately that poetry can be used to promote wellbeing whereby expressive writing be a means of eliciting and reframing life's experiences. Growing up she enjoyed a Pam Ayres ditty but with a love for the North Cornish Coast and frequent holidays in the area throughout her life, it is probably no surprise that she cites John Betjeman as her main inspiration. She blogs her poetry at www.ginzandtonic.co.uk Read More Read Less