Polly Atkin
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Some of Us Just Fall ; On Nature and Not Getting Better
Polly Atkin
- Hodder & stoughton
- 6 Juillet 2023
- 9781399717984
A raw and exquisite meditation on chronic illness and our place within the landscape, from prize-winning poet Polly Atkin
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Recovering Dorothy ; The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth
Polly Atkin
- Saraband
- 25 Novembre 2021
- 9781913393175
The first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth's later life and work and the impact of her disability - allowing her to step out from her brother's shadow and back into her own life story.
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In Much With Body, Polly Atkin displays her gifts as a vibrant and provocative contemporary nature poet. The dramatic landscapes of the Lake District and the diaries of Dorothy Wordsworth give rise to these poems. A life-long negotiation with a set of chronic health conditions, brings urgency to her warning we can't expect nature to save us.
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These acutely observed and atmospheric poems by Polly Atkin in her new pamphlet, Shadow Dispatches, from Seren press, offer us a slant perspective on everyday things and events...
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I Have Found a Song
Patience Agbabi, Polly Atkin, Valerie Bloom
- Enitharmon press
- 16 Mars 2010
- 9781904634867
Offers a collection of poems and images published to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. This title features poems that are based on the theme of enslavement.
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In Their Own Words ; Contemporary Poets on their Poetry
- Salt publishing
- 15 Octobre 2012
- 9781907773211
In Their Own Words is a celebration of the variousness of contemporary poets living and writing in the UK today. 50-60 poets talk about their own poetic voices and their work. Essential reading for anybody who cares about poetry.
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This striking debut collection by Polly Atkin is full of vigorously intelligent, lively and entertaining poetry. Already a prize-winner in a number of competitions, Atkin weaves dense metaphors and sensitive observations of the natural world into her original poems. She is often inspired by the Lake District, where she has lived for a decade.
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New Welsh Reader (New Welsh Review 120, Summer 2019) ; New Welsh Review 120, Summer 2019)
Siriol McAvoy, Polly Atkin, Helen Mort
- New welsh review ltd
- 25 Mai 2019
- 9781999352745
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Some of Us Just Fall ; On Nature and Not Getting Better
Polly Atkin
- Hodder & stoughton
- 6 Juillet 2023
- 9781399718004
'It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form' Sally Huband, author of Sea Bean
'Long before I knew I was sick, I knew I was breakable . . .'
A raw and exquisite meditation on chronic illness and our place within the landscape, from prize-winning poet Polly Atkin.
After years of unexplained health problems, Polly Atkin's perception of her body was rendered fluid and disjointed. When she was finally diagnosed with two chronic conditions in her thirties, she began to piece together what had been happening to her - all the misdiagnoses, the fractures, the dislocations, the bone-crushing exhaustion, the not being believed.
Some of Us Just Fall combines memoir, pathography and nature writing to trace a fascinating journey through illness, a journey which led Polly to her current home in the Lake District, where outdoor swimming is purported to cure all, and where every day Polly uses the natural world to help tame her illness. Polly delves into the history of her two genetic conditions, uncovering how these illnesses were managed (or not) in times gone by and exploring how best to plan for her own future.
From medical misogyny and gaslighting, to the illusion of 'the nature cure', this essential, beautiful and deeply personal book examines how we deal with bodies that diverge from the norm, and why this urgently needs to change. This is not a book about getting better, this is a book about living better with illness.
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