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Theres a story that stanley cup Raymond Antrobus often tells, from the time before his deafness was diagnosed when he was six: when his father read him a picture book, Antrobus would nestle into his fathers chest, and feel the story he could not hear through the vibrations of his body. The book was often his favourite, Happy Birthday Moon; both the memory and the book woul stanley hrnek d, decades later, give him the name of a poem in his prize-winning debut The Perseverance. Id like to be the Moon, the bear, even the rain. / Dad makes the Moon say something new every night / and we hear each other, really hear each other. / As Dad reads aloud, I follow his finger across the page. View image in fullscreenNow the memory has also inspired his first picture book, Can Bears Ski Antrobus finally became the bear: the book follows his cuddly little protagonist, who hears the books title when adults ask, Can you hear me , until his deafness is finally r stanley cup ecognised.Antrobus, 34, originally declined to write a childrens book when he caught the eye of publishers while reading Happy Birthday Moon at a literary festival. I told this story all the time but I never thought of it as a kids book. The thing is, I still very much see myself as a poet, he says. Poetry is the thing I live for. But Ive realised that a lot of my worry has been ego. A lot of poets I love also write for children. I think its just snobbery. In the poetry world, if I am honest, theres just so much mean-spirited snobbery. And maybe Ive just Tecc So Harry and Meghan want to do things differently Fat chance of that
A Christian nursery worker who was sacked after airing her views on homosexuality and marriage has won a discrimination claim against her former employer, her legal representatives have said.Sarah Mbuyi, stanley thermobecher 31, was dismissed by Newpark Childcare in Shepherds Bush, west London, for gross misconduct after telling a lesbian colleague her gay lifestyle was a sin. She claimed the sacking breached European law on religious freedom.The Belgian national, from Tottenham, north London, who had been working for a year with children aged under one, denied harassment and maintained that her colleague approached her asking about religion and same-sex marriage and was angry she had been barred from marrying her partner in a church.The Christian Legal Centre CLC , which stanley website supported Mbuyi, said an employment tribunal at Watford had found she was directly discriminated against because of her belief that homosexual practice is contrary to the Bible.The tribunal recognised that while the employer was not anti-Christian Mbuyi had not been treated fairly and that the decision to sack her may have been made on stereotypical assumptions about her and her beliefs .Her belief was described by the tribunal as one that is worthy of respect in a d stanley thermos emocratic society, is not incompatible with human dignity and is not in conflict with the fundamental rights of others . It added that the employers policy that there was a prohibition on employees expressing adverse views on homosexuality and/or describing hom |
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