The Poetry CureJulia Darling, Cynthia Fuller Department of English Literary & Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle, 2005 - 112 pagina's This anthology was copublished with Newcastle University. Its two editors worked with patients and medical staff to produce a selection of poems which they thought would be helpful to people recovering from physical and mental illness. 'This book of poems is for all of us who go through illness, deal with doctors, hospitals, and experiences such as bereavement and ageing, and who struggle to find language to describe the suffering we have to go through. Medical language baffles and alienates us. It's a harsh, unforgiving vocabulary that often seems to bear no relationship to our own emotional predicament. In this uplifting anthology we see how poetry can give us metaphors and images to help us understand our feelings and communicate them to people around us. This is a book that should be in every waiting-room, and should be by the bed of every GP and consultant. It may inspire you to write poetry, and also help you to find order in the chaos of ill health. By giving us words, poetry can help cure us.' - Julia Darling & Cynthia Fuller |
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Pagina 23
... door she made her exit . Only these bouquets – carnations , tiger lilies , hothouse roses , meretricious everlasting flowers . By day , they form the set in which I play the patient - one of a long line of actresses who've played the ...
... door she made her exit . Only these bouquets – carnations , tiger lilies , hothouse roses , meretricious everlasting flowers . By day , they form the set in which I play the patient - one of a long line of actresses who've played the ...
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... door . When nothing else will work and the small body on the bed struggles with each smaller breath , at least there are manners ; their elaborate rules . So we play , near despair , a game of courtesy , death on the advantage point ...
... door . When nothing else will work and the small body on the bed struggles with each smaller breath , at least there are manners ; their elaborate rules . So we play , near despair , a game of courtesy , death on the advantage point ...
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... doors and cannisters the night of a storm . He doesn't know why his days finished like this Daylight is as hard to ... door opening to let him in To what looks like release from what feels like pain And over his shoulder a glimpse of ...
... doors and cannisters the night of a storm . He doesn't know why his days finished like this Daylight is as hard to ... door opening to let him in To what looks like release from what feels like pain And over his shoulder a glimpse of ...
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