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"Do I never want to sleep
Or is it, never wake?
After all that's said and done,
What difference does it make?"
In this heartfelt collection, Claire Diana Hallpike-Selby takes us through honest and raw poems, she paints a picture of confusion, fear, and the silent battles we face when someone we love slips into darkness. With over 25 years of experience as an educational writer and award-winning author of songs, stories, and poems, her words strike a deep chord. The poems are real, unvarnished, and full of heart, inviting readers to connect with the feelings of loss, heartbreak, and the search for understanding. Where Madness Shadows Fall doesn't offer easy answers - it simply shows the truth of what it feels like to love and lose, and how poetry can help make sense of it all.
ISBN : 978-1-83543-896-1
Scheduled: 11/12/2025
Pages : 86
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
Author: C. D. Hallpike-Selby, B.A. (Mod Lang), OXON, ACG, FCIM.
She is a professional, independent writer with over twenty-five years' experience as an author of educational materials published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Collins, Arena Verlag, Pons Klett, FLTRP (China), and YHE SA (Poland). Her written works include songs, stories, poems, and school courses, which have won many awards.
She has travelled internationally from Brazil to China, Poland to Taiwan and Spain to Russia, giving presentations and providing training. She is now recording the exceptional experiences in her life in poems, memoirs, and stories.
She is one of only ten non-Chinese to be nominated as Friends of China for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, winning a song writing award from the Beijing Olympic Committee. Her song was published on the official international music album.
There is more information about her educational writing at www.claireselby.org