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A Hospital Odyssey
Gwyneth Lewis
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Description for A Hospital Odyssey
Paperback. "A Hospital Odyssey" is a book-length epic poem by one of Britain's leading younger poets, universal but also highly topical in what it says about cancer, caring for loved ones and the workings of the NHS. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290. 176 pages. "A Hospital Odyssey" is a book-length epic poem by one of Britain's leading younger poets, universal but also highly topical in what it says about cancer, caring for loved ones and the workings of the NHS. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 12. Weight: 308.
A Hospital Odyssey is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on the most recent biomedical research into stem cells and cancer, the poem is a journey through the body's inner space and the strange habitats created by disease, including the chimeras people see when they're unwell. Maris, whose husband, Hardy, has been diagnosed with cancer, is separated from him. Her mythical journey leads though a surreal landscape, peopled by true and false physicians, god-celebrities, rabid statues, diseases hunting healthy bodies and a microbes holding their annual ball. The Otherworld is located in the hospital's basement. In her ... Read more
A Hospital Odyssey is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on the most recent biomedical research into stem cells and cancer, the poem is a journey through the body's inner space and the strange habitats created by disease, including the chimeras people see when they're unwell. Maris, whose husband, Hardy, has been diagnosed with cancer, is separated from him. Her mythical journey leads though a surreal landscape, peopled by true and false physicians, god-celebrities, rabid statues, diseases hunting healthy bodies and a microbes holding their annual ball. The Otherworld is located in the hospital's basement. In her ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248772
SKU
V9781852248772
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Ref
99-15
About Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Lewis was Wales’s National Poet from 2005 to 2006, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. Her first six books of poetry in Welsh and English were followed by Chaotic Angels (2005) from Bloodaxe, which brings together the poems from her English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum, and by A Hospital Odyssey (2010), ... Read more
Reviews for A Hospital Odyssey
Gwyneth Lewis's remarkable long poem, an epic for our time, tracks...a pilgrim's progress, as Maris, her heroine and surrogate, takes on both disease and the National Health Service in her fight to save her cancer-stricken husband, Hardy. The result is a kind of surreal modern morality tale....overall, this is a performance that more than confirms Gwyneth Lewis's reputation as one ... Read more