Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of chronic illness and pain by Andy Jackson, Fiona Wright, Stuart Barnes, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Peter Boyle

Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of chronic illness and pain

Andy Jackson, Fiona Wright, Stuart Barnes, Heather Taylor-Johnson, Peter Boyle

232 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
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Of course not all great art has its genesis in pain, and not all pain - not even a fraction - leads to the partial consolations of art. But if lancing an abscess is the surest way to healing, can poetry offer that same cleansing of emotional wound...

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