A friend said writing poetry is part of your healing. My stay in hospital was a long period of isolation and solitude and every day I got up to write with the vista of the city before me, I was engaging with healing of body and mind and as a period this offered me significant reflection and redeemed my style of writing with reflections on nature. So many of the poems were a response to kindness and care of those around me. - Noel Jeffs SSF

Noel Jeffs SSF is an Anglican Friar originally from Gippsland. He is a sometimes student of Kate Lilley and others for a Master of Creative Writing at Sydney University. He is a disabled person living alone who enjoys conversation and silence and writing.

Noel has a master's degree in Mental Health and has trained as a psychotherapist. The manuscript 'Maturing in the Religious life' has won wide attention and is now readily available for a wider audienceHis poetry print publication 'Under the Dome' is still available from Garden Lounge in Newtown Sydney. He has been published in Burrows twice and is currently part of two anthologies, David Reuters' 'Outer Space/ Inner Minds' and 'Antologie Romana Australiana' a cross-cultural work of dialogue and discourse between his Sydney workshop and the 'Palatul Culturii Bistrita-Romania', where he was translated into Romanian. Has published 'Walking in Stealth' and a 'Pilgrims Poetry' and is venturing forth in 'Balmain Contemplations' now.

Title: Balmain Contemplations
Author: Noel Jeffs SSF
ISBN: 9781923065222
Publisher: MoshPit Publishing
Date: 2023