I'm trying to find the poles and determine the orders of the complex function $$f(z)=\frac{1}{(z+2i)^2}-\frac{z}{z-i}+\frac{z+1}{(z-i)^2}$$ I think that $z=-2i$ is a pole of order 2 and $z=i$ is also a pole of order 2, but I'm not sure how to show this. I know that if $f(z)$ has a pole at $z=z_0$ of order $m$ then the principal part of its Laurent series is finite: $$\frac{b_m}{(z-z_0)^m}+...+\frac{b_1}{z-z_0}$$ So, I tried to expand $f(z)$ in two Laurent series, one centered at $z_0=-2i$ and other at $z_0=i$.
For that I wrote $$-\frac{z}{z-i}+\frac{z+1}{(z-i)^2}=-1-\frac{i}{z-i}+\frac{z-i+i+1}{(z-i)^2}=-1-\frac{i}{z-i}+\frac{1}{z-i}+\frac{i+1}{(z-i)^2}$$ $$=-1+\frac{1-i}{z-i}+\frac{i+1}{(z-i)^2}$$
For the Laurent series of $f(z)$ centered at $z=-2i$, the first term is already part of this series, right? So I just need to express the sum of the second and third terms as the series centered at $-2i$. Those terms are analytic at $-2i$, right? So they can be expressed as a Taylor series only, so $\frac{1}{(z+2i)^2}$ would be the principal part of the Laurent series, making $z=-2i$ a pole of order 2.
For the Laurent series of $f(z)$ centered at $z=i$ the sum of the second and third terms are already part of this series. So I need to write the first term as a series centered at $i$, but this term is analytic at that point so it would be a Taylor series, making the sum of the last two terms the principal part of the Laurent series, making $z=i$ a pole of order 2.
Am I on the right path? How do I express the sum of the last two terms a series centered at $z=-2i$ and the first term as a series centered at $z=i$?
It is not necessary to find the exact Lauernt expansion: To find then order of pole at $i$, for example, you just observe that $\frac 1 {(z+2i)^{2}}$ is analytic in some disk around $i$ so it has a power series expansion of the type $\sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty} a_n (z-i)^{n}$ in that disk. This gives the nature of the Laurent series expansion around $i$ and you can can infer that the oder of the pole is $2$.