Opening a Different Window
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Opening a Different Window

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eBook - ePub

Opening a Different Window

About this book

Opening
a Different Window: A Poetry and Illness Anthology is a collection of poetry
written by people with experience of chronic illness. Inspiring, challenging
and sometimes funny this anthology can't fail to move you.

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Information

Publisher
Smith|Doorstop Books
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781910367476
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Poetry
Index
Literature
14 word poems (or spectral sonnets): short poems extracted from longer pieces.
NICK BOREHAM
A form of inference
lost
drifting in fog
in the
the
in the
certainty
of pain
suffering
death
SUZY BOURKE
Swallows
Accrington Brick
Walker
Synapses
Survey
Spirit
Ruskin
Ransom
sing-a-long
welcome
cinnamon
peak
CHANNA CUNE
shopping
condition
accessory
too-bad
fashion-wise
drops
aunt
betrayed
feeble
joy
ahead
doer
gardening
fight
SAVANNAH GREEN
storm
sage
humourous
boom
ankles
bare
blossom
creep
5ā€™6ā€
bollocks
flew
cheeks
doctor
Bill
ROB HANLON
Death
Previous
Happy
Passed
Ward
Question
Nobody
Rugged
Old
Cross
Last
Request
Saved
Captive
2...

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. About the workshops
  3. Ankylosing spondylitis: Simon Armitage
  4. Miracle on St Davidā€™s Day: Gillian Clarke
  5. Oboe: Ian Mcmillan
  6. Meningococcus: Blake Morrison
  7. To my blood clot: Carole Bromley
  8. A merry-go-round named denial: Jenni Brooks
  9. A childā€™s visit: Sue Bryan
  10. CCU: Richard Carpenter
  11. The nurse: Linda Carrigan
  12. The back round: Kay Carter
  13. Visiting time: Kay Carter
  14. The wig department: Duncan Chambers
  15. Alzheimerā€™s: Simon Currie
  16. Too much the doctor: Simon Currie
  17. Arthritis: Mary Ann Dearlove
  18. My horse the IBS: Susan Elliot
  19. ICU ā€“ York: Polly Gibson
  20. Contortionist: Polly Gibson
  21. Not an ode to a nightingale: Georgi Gill
  22. Seeing the doctorā€™s notes: Georgi Gill
  23. Death beds: Rob Hanlon
  24. I know: Karen Harrington
  25. Taking the illness for a walk: Karen Hill Green
  26. Headache: Karen Hill Green
  27. Not just memory loss: Yvie Holder
  28. To prostate cancer open brackets undiagnosed, advanced close brackets: Yvie Holder
  29. Perspective: Helen Jones
  30. Accident and emergency at York Hospital: Helen Jones
  31. Spectral sonnet: Filip Kaminski
  32. A hospital: Ruth Laurie-Hopper
  33. Where I am now: Louise Liddell
  34. Dear Pancreas: Louise Liddell
  35. True story?: Mary Madden
  36. My people: Annette Mitchell
  37. The newly refurbished ward tour (the room where my mother died): Annette Mitchell
  38. Imaginary friend: Richard Morley
  39. Welcome to Ward 29: Laura Nellist
  40. I never thought that I would end up the eldest: Nerina Onion
  41. I took my brotherā€™s pain: Nerina Onion
  42. Breath in breath out: Pat Richardson
  43. Keeping a lid on it: Julia Key
  44. Exercise 2: Julia Key
  45. A piece of me: Miles Salter
  46. Itā€™s dark outside and snowing hard: Mary Stevens
  47. I did I didnā€™t: Carol Street
  48. Hospital: two ways: Laura Sutcliffe
  49. My consultantā€™s smile: Alice Tarbuck
  50. Lichen sclerosus: Alice Tarbuck
  51. My uncleā€™s stutter: Merran Toerien
  52. A hospital isā€¦: Nick Boreham, Carole Bromley, Channa Cune, Karen Hill Green, Mary Madden
  53. A nurse knows...: Una Adderley, Ann Barningham, Sue Bryan, Kay Carter
  54. 14 word poems or spectral sonnets Nick Boreham, Suzy Bourke, Channa Cune, Savannah Green, Rob Hanlon, Yvie Holder, Louise Liddell, Mary Madden, Laura Nellist, Alice North
  55. Afterword
  56. Further reading