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MANEA MATTERS
MANEA MATTERS
LET’S FIND

A CURE

Dementia Stats
I first started to write poetry after reading my
daughter's poem 'Rainfall' [in the book], written £10 could buy slides so scientists can
whilst travelling home from London, where I study 100 samples
drive tube trains for a living. £20 could fund one-hour of
ground-breaking research
When lockdown started I was trying to be
mindful, taking note of what was going on £50 could provide access to specialist
around me and lines just started coming into equipment to study live cells
my head. Faceless, my first self-published poetry
book, covers topics such as Covid, mental health,
growing old and growing up.
To date I have sold 220 copies and have plans to
publicise it in various ways to a wider audience.

I have had some great
feedback from young
and old which means
so much to me.

I have had some great feedback from young and
old which means so much to me. One particular
example is of a teacher getting in touch to
say she has been using it at the beginning of
her lessons with her students and they have The books are priced at £10 per copy
now been inspired to write their own poems. [p&p £1.60]
I am planning to set up a project to include To order your copy, and support Alzheimer's
their poems in a small book which they can Research UK, please contact me by:
sell and raise money for their school or a local
community project. t. 01354 680150 m. 07957 190437
or e. facelessadamwaugh@gmail.com
All the proceeds are going to Alzheimer’s
Research UK, as this is a charity close to mine You can also follow my story or order through
and my family’s heart, as we lost my mother-in- Instagram@face_less2020
law to this horrible disease. Adam Waugh

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