A year ago I introduced readers of this website to an old friend, Sarah Nock, who had written an insightful  –  and surprisingly funny  –  account of what it is like to suffer from Parkinson’s disease.  (My review of Ponderings on Parkinson’s is still on-site.)  Now she has published another book of a quite different kind: an anthology of verse, but one with a difference. In her introduction, Sarah tells us that at one time, pre-Parkinson’s, she had suffered from insomnia and caused her restless mind to summon up poems she had learnt or remembered.  Later on, when her attacks were at their worst, she found that having poetry read to her gave her some relief.  However, as she didn’t always like the poems her readers chose, she began to compile her own collection, adding to the learned-by-heart insomniac repertoire others that she liked and didn’t find tiring or boring.  This anthology is the result.