About And The Clouds Parted by Gabrielle Yetter
Gabrielle Yetter started writing poetry on a spring morning in March, 2020. The world had just gone into lockdown and life felt frightening, dark, and hopeless.
She was on a bicycle ride and the morning was misty, chilly and damp. Then the sun broke through, the air warmed, and the clouds scattered. Thus came the inspiration for her first poem (and the name of the collection): And The Clouds Parted.
Her journey continued as she witnessed the pain of a friend who lost her partner to Covid (Moving On), observed peoples’ obsession with mobile devices in a vaccination clinic (Disconnected), and watched news of atrocities around the world (Left Behind and Sunflowers of Hope).
She studied people: frail, elderly women who seemed to be invisible (Nobody), young men who were often thought threatening (Buddy), old men hunting for bargains (Like Him), people with their beloved pets (Dog Days), and fathers anticipating the arrival of their children (Waiting).
She watched people who often went unnoticed and imagined what their lives might be like.
In them, and in her surroundings, she saw beauty and promise. And hope for a better tomorrow.
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Author Bio:
Gabrielle Yetter is a British author who was born in India, raised in Bahrain, and worked as a journalist in South Africa, before travelling to the U.S. on holiday where she remained for more than 20 years.
In 2010, she and her husband, Skip, sold their home, gave away most of their possessions and bought one-way tickets to Cambodia where she wrote The Sweet Tastes of Cambodia (a book about traditional Cambodian desserts) and The Definitive Guide to Moving to Southeast Asia: Cambodia. Together with Skip, she wrote Just Go! Leave the Treadmill for a World of Adventure (based on their adventures and the experiences of others who made significant changes their lives), and later published two children’s books, Ogden The Fish Who Couldn’t Swim Straight and Martha the Blue Sheep.
In 2019, she published her first novel, Whisper of the Lotus, which was long listed in the 2019 London TLC (The Literary Consultancy) Pen Factor writing competition.
And The Clouds Parted is her first poetry collection and was mainly created during lockown.
Gabrielle lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex.