Description

By Terry Beresford

ISBN: 978-1-84991-984-5
Published: 2013
Pages: 200
Key Themes: poetry, mental health

Description

Burning Candle II is a selection of poems written in the various stages of

Bi-Polar. Some are sweet and nice, others a lot deeper and from within,

as I suffered badly with depression and mania.

About the Author

Terry Beresford was born in Romford, Essex, in 1946. He

went to the three local schools in Rainham, where he was brought up,

apart from a family move to Hornchurch, returning after four years,

when he was ten years old.

He left school with little but an average school report, and went on to

work on building sites doing many tasks before joining the London Fire

Brigade and being posted to Bow Fire Station in East London. He

moved to several stations in the area, and was then posted to Stratford for

eight years, where he was awarded the Royal Humane Society Award in

1980.

Ill health meant a change and Terry took a desk job until 1985 when he

Finally left the Fire Service.