{"id":24852,"date":"2021-05-07T18:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=24852"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:23:53","slug":"poet-inspired-by-mum-who-lives-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2021\/05\/07\/poet-inspired-by-mum-who-lives-with-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet inspired by mum who lives with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24854\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2021\/05\/Margret-Bollerup-and-Mum-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2021\/05\/Margret-Bollerup-and-Mum-Small.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2021\/05\/Margret-Bollerup-and-Mum-Small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2021\/05\/Margret-Bollerup-and-Mum-Small-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margret Bollerup and her mum Roberta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Math and Stats department assistant Margret Bollerup is also a published poet. She is pictured above with her mum, Roberta, whom she describes as: former physician, fierce friend, intrepid Guider, and general firecracker, now lives with mixed (Alzheimer\u2019s and vascular) dementia. Roberta\u2019s husband Bryan is her main caregiver, but it is a testament to the quality of her mum-ing that neither of them seems able to shoo Margret away, or convince her to stop feeding them soups.<\/p>\n<p>Marget&#8217;s poem &#8220;Dementia and common household objects&#8221; was featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and was originally published in The New Quarterly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last but not least, listen to Margret Bollerup read her poem &quot;Dementia and common household objects,&quot; which was featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thenewquarterly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thenewquarterly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grab your copy of Best Canadian Poetry 2020 here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hgsImRbbb1\">https:\/\/t.co\/hgsImRbbb1<\/a>&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X8ym6yHGDC\">pic.twitter.com\/X8ym6yHGDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Biblioasis (@biblioasis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/biblioasis\/status\/1388210528737169410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math and Stats department assistant Margret Bollerup is also a published poet. She is pictured above with her mum, Roberta, whom she describes as: former physician, fierce friend, intrepid Guider, and general firecracker, now lives with mixed (Alzheimer\u2019s and vascular) dementia. Roberta\u2019s husband Bryan is her main caregiver, but it is a testament to the &#8230; <a title=\"Poet inspired by mum who lives with dementia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2021\/05\/07\/poet-inspired-by-mum-who-lives-with-dementia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufv-people","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24855,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852\/revisions\/24855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}