Order by post<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nHannah Hodgson, who suffers from an array of conditions that dramatically affect her life, draws on her own illness and disability in an explicit and courageous way, with direct and artful poems that raise questions about the relationship between personal identity, the physical body and our place in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this remarkable pamphlet, Hannah Hodgson maps out the territory and shifting borders between the body and the self.\u00a0 With a careful and clear-eyed lyricism, she examines how disability and illness mean constant negotiation with a society that too often finds it easier to look away.\u00a0 This is poetry that needed to be written and a voice that deserves to be heard.\u201d Kim Moore<\/p>\n
“This is a moving and salutary collection, the poems precise and controlled, expressive without excess or sentimentality.”Glyn Pursglove, Acumen<\/p>\n
“Hodgson shows us what poetry can achieve: much more simply than a novel or memoir, she encapsulates these moments and draws the reader to the heart of the experience. She evokes the pain of feeling a life is curtailed not just by illness, but by other’s expectations of an ill person. That she does so in such an accessible way makes this pamphlet doubly impressive.”\u00a0Goodreads<\/p>\n
“This short collection of twenty-two poems explores the duality of mind and body, separated and brought into conflict by physical illness. The poems are written with an expressive cathartic tone, a unique and wit-ridden perspective and a resilient refusal to be overcome. The free verse of these brief pieces slips subtly into the reader\u2019s thoughts, alerting, informing and sharing: an injection, to borrow one of Hodgson\u2019s metaphors.” Martin Noutch, londongrip<\/p>\n
\u201ca short but genuinely powerful and carefully made work of literature. It shifted my understanding of disability and chronic illness.\u201d Jonathan Davidson, Under the Radar.<\/p>\n
\nDear Body<\/h4>\n
I’d be handing you
\na redundancy notice
\nif the end of you
\ndidn’t mean
\nthe end of me.<\/p>\n
My brain is filled
\nwith corrupted code \u2013
\nerror alarms
\nscreeching
\nin my organs.<\/p>\n
I never learned
\nhow to calm the heart
\nhow to stop it battering
\nmy chest, acting out
\nlike a child.<\/p>\n
I never learned
\nthe nursery rhyme
\nto quieten it down.
\nI need to learn how
\nto parent these organs.<\/p>\n
Go home,
\nlook over the job description
\nfor a body.
\nRead it over \u2013
\nlet’s start again tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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