Pills for the First Consultation - Couverture souple

Lansdown, John A B

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1096526816 ISBN 13 : 9781096526810

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

As an antidote to bureaucratic thoughts, the author prescribes these undemanding yet subtle anecdotes. ‘Pills for the First Consultation’ contains plays interspersed with original artwork, plays and poems by the author. While intended for a patient destined for a long spell, the verses may be read by anyone seeking asylum from dominant ideology. Hospital administration becomes such a bind when institutionalised doctors concur that the first thing a patient needs is a pen to push around on a sheet of multi-choice questions. A tirade of officialdom seems designed to confirm a patient’s new status as an article of trade - colloquially termed a ‘client’ in medical law jargon.Luckily the red tape officials featuring in this book are eager to hear public grievances. In an attempt to prevent patients becoming a mere commodity statistic, wise governance endorses this book for distribution throughout hospitals for patients to analyse the various issues raised before reporting back to their local representatives. To express their devotion to public concerns, various office holders have donated their images for public appraisal. This philanthropic gesture will no doubt be appreciated by convalescing readers. Hospital inmates may discover solace in helping these public celebrities. Resolving the illness in society can be a cathartic process simultaneously recovering both the patient and society. The opening play is a tribute to the venerable leader, Kim Jong Un during a triumphant tour of a North Korean psychiatric ward. Admiration is also reserved for western figure heads, politicians, gurus and businessmen. Plays, poems and fables are richly enhanced with candid images of upright characters from eugenics proponents to tabloid proprietors. Paintings by the author offer an interlude from the relentless tributes made to prominent administrators. In particular, an interned patient may relate to the fable ‘Bureaucratic Short Fuse’ for the accolade it pays to the fascinating maze of bureaucracy invariably thrust upon a patient when confronted with wads of unsigned documents published in small print legalise. Pills for the First Consultation is the first in a series to form a compilation called Sweet Pills for the Hospital Ward. A defining feature of this anthology is restless verse primed to divert sluggish thoughts away from pending medical appointments to refocus on the fabric of society. The hospital series features plays punctuated with original artwork, plays and poems by the author. Also in the hospital series:Book One - Pills for the First ConsultationBook Two - Pills for the First NightBook Three - Pills for the First DayBook Four - Pills for Visiting HoursBook Five - Pills for the Homeward BoundDue to popular demand, the series is compiled into one book called Sweet Pills for the Hospital Ward‘Quick, send for the playwright!’ - infrequently one hears such words bellowed aloud, yet this epitaph is fitting for a book containing a placebo of verse seeking a remedy to the social illnesses plaguing our world. Pages of stanza pump fresh analysis into the cause of festering pessimism throughout society to resuscitate the heartbeat of culture. Readers with unstable blood pressure should be warned that poems and plays, sandwiched between innocuous oil paintings, jostle for attention in their attempt to diagnose poor venerable society without dismissing it as simply ‘getting-on-a-bit’. Malingering thoughts are flung far from the hospital ward by poignant illuminated prose of x-ray perception penetrating into the fabric of society. Formative years in the scenic Lakelands of North West England moulded Lansdown into an outside landscape painter. Bricklaying and making violins at the prestigious Newark School in Nottinghamshire garnered a discipline that rubbed off onto his fine art. Watercolours, sketches and oil paintings interweave his poems and plays.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1096526816
• ISBN 13: 9781096526810
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 98
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg