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Author: Emily Swettenham

Emily Swettenham is a recent graduate of the University of Cambridge where she read English. In 2020, she won the university's Sykes Prize for her prose fiction piece 'Elegy.doc'. Her/their writing responds to the question of how we might find spiritual expression in a postmodern world--exploring the ways in which this question intersects with the natural world in crisis, and what knowledge the fleshly experience of the body has to offer in this context. 

‘I call her nana’: a poem by Emily Swettenham

31st January 20221st February 2022  Emily Swettenham

In this powerful and vivid poem, Emily Swettenham creatively explores living with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, a condition that affects almost a quarter of a million women in the UK each year.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: My Body's Bodies Editorial, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Poetry
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