Feats of Weakness is a brilliant collection of fictional stories. Each short narrative describes an illness in a spiritual, religious, or metaphysical context.

An award-winning Canadian poet, April Bulmer’s metaphors are medicine. Enter her world of warlocks, demons, physicians, and healers. Her language is a rare prescription for sickness and sin. The tales here tend to be poetic in their telling, rather than dogmatic or medical. It is not a theological text that seeks to identify religious reasons for suffering and sickness. Rather it presents fictional accounts of a variety of characters (women and men) from different ethnicities who struggle with physical, mental, and emotional illnesses in spiritual contexts.

Some speak of traditional religious principles, while others less rigid and more subjective experiences. Listeners are encouraged to identify with characters who might be relevant to them and to engage in their stories in personal and sacred ways.

April Bulmer has created figures or referenced real people who have suffered and shared their feats of strength or weakness; their shuns or kisses from the Universe. Much of April’s work describes issues relating to women and religion and the divine feminine. Her education includes three Master’s degrees in creative writing, religious studies and theological studies. April hopes to reach women and men who might be seeking alternative approaches to the big questions of life. Most of us have suffered some form of illness, the book is universal in this way. April’s educational background has allowed her to set characters’ experiences of illness in a variety of religious contexts, broadening listeners' thoughts about both the physical and the metaphysical worlds.