This is Not a Stunt - Couverture souple

Nichols, Cath

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908853867 ISBN 13 : 9781908853868

Editeur : Valley Press, 2017

Synopsis

In these poems, living with disability or being trans are not tragedies to overcome but ways of being, with their own humour, romance, stories and mundanity.

Embracing the ordinary ( We re middle-aged, of course. Life rolls on ) and the remarkable, Cath Nichols revisits her childhood in New Zealand and her teenage years in Kent, before crossing several decades (and haircuts) on the gay scene in Manchester.

At the heart of the collection is a sequence, Bo(d)y-in-waiting , a forthright and intimately observed narrative of Nichols s partner as a trans teenager in an unwitting decade, thwarted and misunderstood at every turn by vacuous doctors and sceptical teachers. Readers will discover why each body is a act of becoming , and be left with a new appreciation of what makes us human.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Cath Nichols is a poet and playwright. She has previously published two pamphlets and one poetry collection and has had some of her short work broadcast on BBC Radio. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. Her research interests include areas of writing and performance that challenge the norm , gender studies, postcolonial theory and queer theory and how disability is conceived and presented in literature and art. She is on the steering committee for the Research Seminar Programme in Literary Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Valley Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908853867
• ISBN 13: 9781908853868
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible