Good Grief...Please! - Tish Ince

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Résumé :
This book is a sweary account of after-life marital arguments with my late husband and his negotiations with me to re-engage with community. And that of my counselling experience, assessing my progress in this grief journey over four years after his death. My complicated grief, my upset and my life experiences of family grief and loss. It is clear I am angry as f**k that he died and that this grief journey is a hard one, but I find several ways of dealing with living with it, sometimes without resources or support and find my own way to getting through the first four years including poetry, writing this book, a rock choir, reiki, and all the get-up - fall downs along the way. There is more to come- but this is the first. Please be warned that there is an extreme amount of swearing in this book, and most expletives are said inside my head, and thankfully not at other people, but I am stating now that if this is something you cannot bear, please forgive me, I have told my utmost truth and am authentic in each and every moment. - This book is published on 12th Dec 2022, the anniversary of my husbands' death on Dec 12th 2017, and is my homage to him and his requirements that I keep on going, and I am, and I will.

Biographie:
Tish Ince is a Trinidadian / Irish London feminist writer and Bay Area published poet. She has a background in youth and community work, person-centred counselling and theatre. This is her debut book - A dramatic memoir of her early grief years and grief journey, the inspiration for her one-woman show, 'This Shite Grief,' and has taken four years to write. She writes poetry on oppression and anti-racism themes and was nominated for Gloucestershire Poet Laureate, UK, in 2019. She also won a 2020 Paper Nations Marginalised Writer Award South West of England, and in 2022, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize - 'Best of The Small Presses' - BrownstonesPoets (New York) for her grief / Ukraine war poem,' I Polish Shoes.' She reads poetry and excerpts from her books globally across Zoom and live events from her San Francisco home.She began writing her book Good Grief Please! - A Dialogue with Death and Life after the death of her husband, David, in 2017. Her profound experience of grief, complicated grief, and processing her progress along the five stages of grief aremet with a 'connection' with her loved ones in spirit and the help and insights they give her along the way. She is her authentic self in grief, both as a writer capturingthe truism of her widowhood no matter how that comes.This is explicit in its pain and profanity and warns that she swears throughout though is apologetic for any offence. She has a number of publications that she is completing including, 'The San Francisco Story,' and Poetry collections 'Becoming, 'On Grief - WIDOWLAND', 'On Women', Poems To Men 'On War', Poems for Peace' and scriptwriting.Tish Ince facilitates Grief Writing, Method Writing, and Teen Writers Workshops online at her website and attends creative writing spaces at The Writers Drop in - The San Francisco Writing Institute, Bay Area BIPOC Writers Workshops and LIFE Writes - Old Diorama Arts Centre, Euston, UK She is a mother to one daughter, has three grandchildren and lives in San Francisco with her beat poet /publisher and 'alive husband' Dane.