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Tag: My Body's Bodies Editorial

Miscarry by Kerry Byrne

23rd June 202223rd June 2022  Kerry Byrne

A recurring dream featuring supermarket cheese aisles and knitting nurses circles around the same persistent question and painful realisation in Kerry Byrne’s tautly written and moving short fiction, ‘Miscarry’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Kerry Byrne, Miscarriage, My Body's Bodies Editorial, pregnancy

Body Ecstatic: a poem by Selin Genc

14th June 2022  Selin Genc

In this vivid, mystical poem, Selin Genc dives into the flowing relationships between body, space and spirit, abundance and lack, and asks how life can be lived between the extremes of excess and nothing at all.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: My Body's Bodies Editorial, mystical poetry, Poetry

Crone: a poem by Shikhandin

1st June 20221st June 2022  Shikhandin

In this vivid, resonant poem, the ageing body is mirrored in the archetype of the crone – old woman, wise woman, goddess.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Ageing, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry

My Vagina, My Valentine: a poem by Laura Warner

19th May 202220th May 2022  Laura Warner

Laura Warner’s poem explores the effect of direct conversation with the vagina, and how the words and language we choose to use can alter our relationship and power dynamics with our bodies.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: My Body's Bodies Editorial, Periods, Poetry

As I Fall Apart by Oriana Rose, with illustrations by Natasha Natarajan

17th May 202217th May 2022  Umang Kalra

Though adorable in shape and size, Oriana Rose’s As I Fall Apart is anything but. Packing a necessary punch when discussing contraceptives, menstruation and gender, Rose and Natasha Natarajan’s stunning work problematises all three in the pursuit of liberation.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Andrea Long-Chu, As I Fall Apart, Bodies, contraception, contraceptive rights, Elizabeth Grosz, Focus Print, Gender, menstruation, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Natasha Natarajan, Oriana Rose, Period poverty, Sara Ahmed, the implant, Umang Kalra, Women's Rights

My Body is a Word Search: A Review of Hannah Hodgson’s 163 Days

9th May 2022  Clare Moore

Hannah Hodgson’s latest collection of poetry, 163 Days, powerfully bridges the gap between body and mind, the lived experience of disability and the medical establishment’s version of it, writes our reviewer Clare Moore.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: 163 Days, Bodies, Chronic Illness, Clare Moore, disability, Hannah Hodgson, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry, Seren Books

‘blinding’ by Lizzy Yarwood

5th May 2022  Lizzy Yarwood

In this powerful poem, Lizzy Yarwood contemplates the “electric current” of chronic nerve pain, and the emotional effect it has on both mind and body.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Lizzy Yarwood, My Body's Bodies Editorial, nerve pain, poem, Poetry

Patterns by Jane Hartshorn

26th April 202227th April 2022  Jane Hartshorn

In this poetic prose piece, Jane Hartshorn’s experience of Compulsive Skin Picking Disorder leads her to explore – through physical encounters, popular culture, and past relationships – the connections that we try to see between the disparate elements of our lives, in twists and turns that often have no neat resolution.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction, PoetryTagged: Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour, Compulsive Skin Picking Disorder, Jane Hartshorn, My Body's Bodies Editorial, prose poems

The Haptics by Linda Dove

21st April 202221st April 2022  Linda Dove

In these five lush, beautifully written sonnets, Linda Dove explores the intricacies of touch – our need for it, our dismissal of it, and our changing senses in a world where our hands are becoming “unused things, frayed thread, dull knife”.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Haptics, Linda Dove, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry, Sonnets

Bunny Slopes by Clare Moore

14th April 2022  Clare Moore

Skiing down the snowy mountains of Virginia, Clare Moore learned to explore, to venture, to extend the limits of the possible and confront what Simone de Beauvoir once termed as the ‘timidity’ inhibiting women physically to be in the world.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Clare Moore, exercise, Feminism, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Simone de Beauvoir, skiing

Two poems from ‘dirty glass | the glass house’ by Wendy Allen and Charley Barnes

13th April 202213th April 2022  Lucy Writers

In these captivating poems from their joint project, Wendy Allen and Charley Barnes explore the fluid relationship of two narrators to their bodies, to the people surrounding them, and to the physical spaces their bodies occupy.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Charley Barnes, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry, Wendy Allen

Rain & Moonlight: Weathering with Dorothy Wordsworth and Polly Atkin by Iona Glen

12th April 202213th April 2022  Iona Glen

Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals shine with moonlight and rain-washed landscapes, but did her later illness inhibit such vision? No, writes Iona Glen, who, when considering the poetry and criticism of Polly Atkin, sees Wordsworth’s creativity flourish in her periods of ill health.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alice Hattrick, Bodies, Dorothy Wordsworth, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Ill Feelings, illness, Iona Glen, My Body's Bodies Editorial, nature writing, non-fiction, Polly Atkin, Seren Books, Susan Sontag, Virginia Woolf

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