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Tag: Chronic Illness

Two poems by Louise Mather

15th November 202215th November 2022  Louise Mather

In Louise Mather’s short yet sublime poetry, the body is in turns a miracle immaculately conceived and mirrored before its speaker and an open wound, bloody for all to see.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Louise Mather, menstruation, Mental Health, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry

Our Words, Our Lives: Writing and M.E.

13th July 202214th July 2022  Lucy Writers

Five writers – Nasim Marie Jafry, Laura Elliott, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright and Louise Kenward – discuss what it’s like to write with M.E. and how chronic illness has forced them to discover new modes of understanding, new forms of expression, new realms of imagination (as edited by author Katy Wimhurst).

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Posted in Creative Writing, Health and Wellbeing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Henry Anderson, JP Seabright, Katy Wimhurst, Laura Elliott, Louise Kenward, M.E., My Body's Bodies Editorial, Nasim Marie Jafry, writing

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

Speaking from the Shadows: Writing Fiction and Chronic Illness

14th March 202214th March 2022  Katy Wimhurst

In her essay, author Katy Wimhurst explores how the experience of chronic illness challenges established (and often ableist) conventions of storytelling, opening up fiction – and indeed language itself – to new, imaginative possibilities.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Fiction, Franz Kafka, John Adair, Katy Wimhurst, Louise Kenward, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Rabih Alemeddine, Short Stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, Sol Worth, Susan Sontag, Through Navajo Eyes, Virginia Woolf
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