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The Day Hospital: A Poem for Twelve Voices
Sally Read
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Description for The Day Hospital: A Poem for Twelve Voices
Paperback. The Day Hospital is the third book of poetry from one of Bloodaxe's younger poets with a growing reputation for writing close to the bone. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 112. 64 pages. The Day Hospital is the third book of poetry from one of Bloodaxe's younger poets with a growing reputation for writing close to the bone. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 6. Weight: 112.
Across one day in London, twelve elderly men and women sit in flats, walk, or wait, and speak about their histories, their hopes, their loves, their disappointments and griefs - and above all seek to express who they are and what their life has been. Most are immigrants - Irish, West Indian, Polish, Italian, and German, struggling with a feeling of rootlessness. Drawn from Sally Read's experiences as a community psychiatric nurse in central London, these twelve monologues are the voices of schizophrenia, dementia, depression, and anxiety. Authentic and moving, they form a vivid portrait of the capital - its ... Read more
Across one day in London, twelve elderly men and women sit in flats, walk, or wait, and speak about their histories, their hopes, their loves, their disappointments and griefs - and above all seek to express who they are and what their life has been. Most are immigrants - Irish, West Indian, Polish, Italian, and German, struggling with a feeling of rootlessness. Drawn from Sally Read's experiences as a community psychiatric nurse in central London, these twelve monologues are the voices of schizophrenia, dementia, depression, and anxiety. Authentic and moving, they form a vivid portrait of the capital - its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249489
SKU
V9781852249489
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Ref
99-44
About Sally Read
Sally Read was born in Suffolk in 1971. She trained and worked as a psychiatric nurse in London while completing a BA with the Open University, and went on to earn her MA at the University of South Dakota, USA. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2001. Her three poetry collections with Bloodaxe are The Point of Splitting (2005), ... Read more
Reviews for The Day Hospital: A Poem for Twelve Voices
Read defines herself by her risks…violence and elegance walk hand in hand – her style is not unlike that of Plath's middle period. There is real pleasure in the disparity between her light lyric touch and the menacing and /or visceral description she frequently employs; she disarmed this reader and defied the expectation.
Kathryn Gray
Magma
Kathryn Gray
Magma