Where I’d Watch Plastic Trees Not Grow - Couverture souple

Hodgson, Hannah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912565536 ISBN 13 : 9781912565535

Editeur : Verve Poetry Press, 2021

Synopsis

Hannah has taken her regular hospitalization due to serious illness and made it into astonishing poetry. Her world of the hospital is sometimes like a zoo, sometimes like a gallery and sometimes a crowded town square. The wards contain tigers and crows, butterflies – doctors become poets, the dead turn into an art installation, while outside, the trees are plastic – as unchanging as Hannah's shielding days that 'drag like a foot.' But between the pulled curtains of these words the details of real-life amongst the terminally ill are depicted in full colour. A daughter 'cries neatly in a corner' while her mourning father spins 'his wedding band around his finger.' Nurses fill 'carrier bags marked 'patient's property'' while 'the industrial plastic' crinkles as a body is lifted from bed to trolley in its bag. The poet’s eye feels unblinking at times – unable but also unwilling to blink. How could it when it has so much to show? These poems are heavy with import, but they are light with the liveliness of art that is beautifully rendered.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hannah Hodgson is a poet living with life limiting illness. Her work has been published by the Poetry Society, Teen Vogue and Poetry Saltzburg, amongst others. She is the recipient of a 2020 Northern Writers Award for Poetry. Her first poetry pamphlet Dear Body was published by Wayleave Press in 2018.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verve Poetry Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912565536
• ISBN 13: 9781912565535
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 30
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible