Equally True
Sandra Soper
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Add to basketThese poems arise from a life shaped by profound love and the long, faithful work of grief. They move through marriage, motherhood, belief, addiction, endurance, and loss with tenderness and clarity, offering not a record of suffering but a listening presence within it. At their heart is the conviction that love does not end and that grief, though costly, can become a place of deep spiritual attention.
Grounded in lived experience, the poems dwell on the ordinary objects and moments that carry the weight of the sacred. A pair of insoles cut by hand, a jug on a windowsill, a remembered look or phrase. Such details become touchstones, holding what cannot be resolved yet continues to shape the soul. Memory here is active and alive, a form of communion rather than recollection.
Faith is not assumed or neatly affirmed. It is questioned, tested, and returned to in fragments, gestures, and acts of care. Grief is shown as both breaking and refining, a slow discipline that sharpens compassion and deepens understanding.
Written with musical sensitivity and brave emotional honesty, these poems offer recognition rather than answers. They speak to those who know that powerful love leaves a lasting imprint and that through loss, the soul may be changed, enlarged, and quietly sustained by grace.
Sandra Soper was born in Dundee in 1945. A devoted educator, she became the youngest deputy head teacher in her district before turning to educational writing and later working as a schools inspector. Widowed in 1997, she is a mother to four children, all born in Oxford before the family moved and settled in South London. She is the author of Primary First: Handbook for Primary Teachers, published by Oxford University Press, and now writes poetry shaped by a life of family, teaching, loss and reflection.
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