As a doctor and poet he was wary of the alleged therapeutic value of poetry. One year the slogan of National Poetry Day was ‘Transform your life with poetry’. Gael Turnbull would rather it had been ‘Transform your poetry with life’. Scottish Poetry LibraryThe poet Gael Turnbull was also a GP though he was said not to like doctoring very much (‘but it paid the bills’). He was … [Read more...] about Doses of compassion from the doctor-poet