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Not Much to Say Really

Name: Not Much to Say Really
Author: Kelvin Corcoran

Auteur: Kelvin Corcoran

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Kelvin Corcoran

Engels
Paperback
9781848615595
09 juni 2017
68 pagina's

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Not Much to Say Really is an account of extended conversations with four elderly patients in hospital. Standing on the edge of their time they look back over their lives with good humour, tenderness and remarkable candour. At every turn these conversations show the reader that the most personally lived events and experiences are the most powerfully shared in the common lot of mortality. On that score they have much to say. We asked the poet, Kelvin Corcoran, and the doctor and artist, Emma Collins, to meet and speak with elderly patients in General Hospital, then to translate these conversations into creative works. The poems and artworks in this book offer us a glimpse of other human lives; of persons who have experienced our very own desires, fears and hopes; of human beings who are now briefly patients. Patients whom we owe a duty beyond the delivery of just blood tests or drugs or suitable placement. Patients and persons who, one day soon, we ourselves will be. -Dr Sam Guglani, Consultant Oncologist & Director, Medicine Unboxed Working with interview material from elderly patents, Kelvin Corcoran's new work conveys 'the miracle of ordinary events recalled' - births, deaths, weddings, international travel, and social change. Through his characteristic technique of layering voices, places and times into a continuous present, Corcoran re-weaves these testimonies into a Greek chorus of lived experience. From his generous encounters, Corcoran finds the poetry and patterns in memories and the gaps between them, exploring how a life is made, re-made and re-told through the changing textures of history and language. Songful, humorous, poignant and often very moving, this work proves just how valuable poetry can be at that point where it interfaces with medicine. -Andy Brown (co-editor A Body of Work: Poetry & Medical Writing, Bloomsbury 2016)

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 juni 2017
Aantal pagina's: 68
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Kelvin Corcoran
Hoofdillustrator: Emma Collins
Tweede Illustrator: Emma Collins
Hoofduitgeverij: Shearsman Books

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 148 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 210 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 103 g

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EAN: 9781848615595

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Taal: Engels
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