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'The Way of the Wolf' continues the journey started with 'Words of a Wolf'. This eclectic collection of poetry explores a Veteran's experience of living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and touches on the difficult subject of racism experienced in the British Armed Forces and Metropolitan Police in the 1980s, as well as more positive and uplifting moments. It continues to provide an insight few will have seen to date. This title is part of a larger project that I am running, the aim of which is to continue raising awareness of how PTSD affects Veterans and their families, to promote creativity as a way of coping with PTSD and to educate disabled artists on their Intellectual Property rights and help them to safeguard their work on the internet. Income generated from the book will allow me to continue my therapeutic work and go towards funding an exhibition of photography and poetry with the same aims. If there are any profits, a percentage will go to the Occupational Therapy units of Combat Stress to provide materials to enable Veterans to do some form of Creative Therapy. Reviews: Fraught with emotion from a troubled soul but one with a powerful gift for the written word. An incredibly moving collection of poems. Some sombre, some angry but there are positive uplifting moments too. Lynette Pinchess Nottingham Post Trauma shatters basic assumptions about life and can leave individuals feeling disconnected and alone. Many veterans bottle-up their feelings and put on a coping mask so that those around have no idea what inner torment they are going through. In this moving collection of work, Wolf transforms feelings, sensations, questions and experiences around veterans' PTSD into a narrative that others can connect with. He shines a light into areas that are often hidden or ignored and confronts and challenges the unacceptable. Wolf demonstrates how creative thinking and actions can assist recovery. The varied tempo of the work balances humour, love poetry and sharp observation with open and honest personal disclosure. Jan Lobban Trauma Therapist Combat Stress

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""Raw and compelling""This book tells you what goes on behind the armour and the challenges faced by PTSD sufferers. There's humour here too, and an honest look at how the condition impacts on daily lives. It's also a book of poetry about what it is to be open to experience, and a reminder that our similarities are greater than our differences. ""moving reading""After reading Words of a Wolf I have been looking forward to reading Way of a Wolf. This book is another very moving read by 'Wolf' describing his experiences and traumas with racial descrimination and Societies reluctance to deal with PTSD. Well done Wolf for having the courage to speak out and I look forward to your next book. ""Another intense and compelling collection""I was turned on to Villyat ""Wolf"" Sunkmanitu's first book of poetry, ""Words of a Wolf"" by a friend. Since then I've had the pleasure of getting to know the writer through Facebook and his blog. Over the last two years I've appreciated and pondered upon the snippets he's posted but anxiously awaited another book that I could gobble up quickly as I did the first one, set it down and think about it, and then pick it up again from time to time as I struggle with my own writing and my own PTSD. Wolf's writing not only gives me insight into what a soldier is left with after he has done his duty to his country but what I really connected with was the PTSD he lives with every day. I've struggled with PTSD for a long time, just not for reasons of war and felt that no one really understood that; until I read Wolf's poems and got to know the man. I found his second book ""The Way of the Wolf"" even more impactful than the first. I felt Wolf bared his soul in this book even more than in the first and at the same time his voice is even more sure as he speaks out upon what society does to those it no longer needs, how power corrupts, and how all of us from different creeds and colors need to speak out against racism and mistreatment of those of us that are mistreated because they aren't what society considers to be the ""norm"". The writing in the book veers from raw verses of emotion to expertly-crafted poems that tell a story and hopefully for those that connect with it a lesson and food for thought. I was especially moved by `Killing and Fighting', `War is Theft', ' Forgotten Heroes', ' Fighting for Some Peace', ' Lobo', `Interpretation', `False Hope', and `Closing the Hole'. ""The Way of the Wolf"" moved me from anger to tears to hope and I found it to be an extremely intense and compelling journey. It's a fantastic and unique piece of work and I look forward to Wolf's next project.

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I started writing poetry in 1981, while serving with the Royal Air Force Police. It helped to release some of the tension that had built up during my two year tour in Northern Ireland (1983-1985). When I left the RAF I was not told about PTSD and no diagnosis was made on my discharge medical. No one, including myself knew that I had the condition. We weren't encouraged to talk about such things in those days and suffered in silence ... much like many of us do nowadays. After a six month break I served in the Metropolitan Police. My career in the civilian police was cut short after an incident involving an explosion in London which triggered a flashback to an incident in Belfast.

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