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I'm angry for the trauma and pain caused to my birth mother. i'm angry that all of this has impacted on my life, my relationships. it's lifelong, it continues throughout your life, and that is whether you have a really good adaptive family or not. the humiliation inflicted on the unmarried mothers and their babies can even be found in documents from the time. 0ne official wrote on an adoption paper, "the baby is beautiful, unlike its mother. " i was born in 1963 in a mother and baby home in northampton. it was always made obvious that it was not something that you talked about.

In one way, I’d been writing the poems in The Adoption Papersfor my whole life. I’d been making up an imaginary birth mother and father with my adoptive mother for years, since I was a kid. She would say of my birth father: “I’m picturing a Paul Robeson figure, Jackie, perhaps with a bit of Nelson Mandela mixed in.” In another, I started writing the book when I was pregnant. It’s difficult when your writing infiltrates your life and vice versa, difficult to work out what actually happened and what didn’t. Your imaginative life is your reality.

Burns night has been and gone, but poetry is for every night, and day. It’s a source of solace, comfort and cheer in difficult times like this current pandemic and lockdown So here, to help you through, are twenty of Scotland’s greatest poets, who aren’t Robert Burns. William Dunbar (circa 1459-1530) “Back to Dunbar!” was a favourite phrase of Hugh MacDiarmid, and the man he was talking about was a Middle Scots poet attached to the court of James IV, who wrote works that were rhetorical and lyrical marvels. Dunbar was one of a group of medieval Scots known as the “makars” an...

Tonight, the gifts at christmas that truly made this a new year. it was christmas eve in edinburg, texas, armondo garzas about receive a life-changing gift from 10-year-old ayden. armondo has cared for ayden for years. he's not his biological father, but he raised him as if he was. >> to my bonus dad, you didn't give me the gift of life, but you sure did make my life better. >> ayden and his mother melissa presenting armondo with adoption papers. and with us tonight -- >> hi, david. >> hi, david. >> the garzas. and one very proud father. >> i was just beyond my emotions. i couldn't believe tha...

Fayetteville, arkansas, kanya carlson, an adult now, sitting in the middle between husband and wife rick and kim harp. the harps have helped care for kanya for years. in an envelope, the adoption papers. a hug from her now official mother. her father, too. and this evening here -- >> hi, david. >> kanya on her wish, answered. >> feeling like i belong, that made a huge difference. in a year like 2020, it was just super sweet to end on that note. >> we needed this. good night. now at 6:00 a possible new trend in california'scaliforniai