Ed Brown is a Canadian Forces veteran of Tsimpshian First
Nations and Scottish-Canadian heritage. During his 19-year military
career, he served on peacekeeping missions to the former
Yugoslavia, Israel, Syria and Turkey (in support of Afghanistan),
and aboard HMCS Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg and Moresby. Ed began
writing poetry as therapy for PTSD (posttraumatic stress
disorder).
Songwriter Denis Donnelly says, "With strong street language
that often gains power from echoing the innocence of nursery
rhymes, these poems of Ed's peacekeeping experiences, both
narrative and psychological, paint an unforgettable picture of war
and its human costs."
Psychologist Agnes Sawchyn says that Ed writes "with unflinching
frankness and emotional honesty... Ed extends a message of hope to
others by describing what, in the end, made his journey back to
health possible and worth navigating: his love for his children,
the apprehension and joy of experiencing new love, the simple
beauties of nature, and an irrepressible sense of humour and
playfulness."
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"There are at least two gifts in the poetic, and sometimes
wrenching, accounts of a soldier's journey. The first is that the
scenes of people caught up in war's horrors are brought vividly to
life. The second is the gift of following a returning soldier
through despair and personal struggles into final acceptance. With
strong street language that often gains power from echoing the
innocence of nursery rhymes, these poems of Ed's peacekeeping
experiences, both narrative and psychological, paint an
unforgettable picture of war and its human costs, and testify that
those costs are not only to those in the line of fire." - Denis
Donnelly, BMus, songwriter, poet, choir director, arranger,
workshop leader
"With unflinching frankness and emotional honesty, Ed has
described the horror of war as viewed through the eyes of a
Canadian Forces peacekeeper. His experience of the Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder that resulted, with nightmares, horrific images,
violent emotions, confused thoughts, feelings of guilt and shame,
and loss of sense of self, is painfully captured in his words, as
is his struggle to find his way back from despair and feeling
broken to rediscovering the "freedom to live and enjoy life." Ed
extends a message of hope to others by describing what, in the end,
made his journey back to health possible and worth navigating: his
love for his children, the apprehension and joy of experiencing new
love, the simple beauties of nature, and an irrepressible sense of
humour and playfulness." - Dr. Agnes Sawchyn, psychologist
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