One Poem a Day

The second book of poetry in V.M. Sang's One Poem A Day Series takes us through summer to midwinter.Each day there is a poem to read. These poems are often related to the season, for example, Harvest, or the first flight by the Montgolfier brothers, and of course, Christmas.The poems are varied in type and length. There are haiku, haibun and tanka, limericks, sonnets, odes and narrative poems among the collection. Some poems are comments on serious subjects, while others are amusing and entertaining.Many of the poems in this collection are in the traditional vein, so if you enjoy this type of poetry, this book is for you. V.M. Sang was born and lived her early life in Cheshire in the north west of England. Her father died while she was very young and her mother remarried. Her stepfather was a farmer on the Cheshire/North Wales border. V.M. Sang's step brothers and sisters all went to boarding school, but she was lucky enough to escape that, going to live with her mother's elder sister and her husband in order to get a good education. She passed her 11+ examination and went to Grammar School, thus getting a more academic education.She did little writing until starting to teach in Croydon, Greater London. Here she started a Dungeons and Dragons club in the school where she was teaching using bought scenarios at first. She then thought she could write her own. The idea of turning it into a novel formed in her head, but she did little about it until she took early retirement. Then she began to write The Wolves of Vimar Series. Not having written a novel since her teens (a rather bad romantic novel) for the consumption of her friends, she was surprised at how this work seemed to take on a life of its own, and what was supposed to be a single novel turned into a series. A series by V.M. Sang