Evelyn documentary

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I have just watched Evelyn. I was so moved by it, but, I am trying to find the poem that Orlando, the film maker, read out at the end of the film. Does anyone know? My Google-ing isn't throwing up any answers at present. I am aware that this is likely to be more an issue with my Google-ing skills! Thanks :)

What channel, who is Evelyn?
It would help if you gave more information.

This?

www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/4637.html

Quite right **IHave. Sorry! I was posting after a few wines and a bloody good cry, that's all I could manage 😂

Evelyn is the oldest of four siblings and took his life after a battle with schizophrenia. The film is his siblings walking in his honour 13 years later as they felt they never talk about it and hadn't dealt woth it.

That is exactly it **Fingerbobs, thank you.

Ihave and Fingerbobs

I’ve just finished watching this. Utterly utterly beautiful tragic moving inspiring troubling yet soothing piece of work (the music and landscape shots are pieces of art in their own right!). I’ve recently started volunteering at a suicide prevention charity and am becoming quite evangelical about talking about mental health. We all need to talk more. Brilliantly well done all the siblings for doing this, unimaginably hard after bottling it up for years on end. Please do watch the documentary, it’s on bbc iplayer.

Oh that poem is beautiful. 😢 It's written by Nicholas Evans and it's from his book The Smoke Jumper, he's such a great writer.

Thanks horsemad for the info, going to order that book. Tried to read the poem to my husband but can't quite get through it all without breaking

Oh that poem...it is so beautiful. 😭

I clicked on that link....now I am definately sniffling...

@Cheers - he also wrote The Horse Whisperer, another great read. 🙂

I know what you mean about reading the poem to your DH; I'd be the same, I think.

Horsemad thanks for the reccomendation, another book to add to my ever growing list of things to read and that I will constantly fall asleep with whenever I try to read it