Some of Us Just Fall
Autor Polly Atkinen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 mar 2024
'Essential reading' Jessica J. Lee, author of Turning
'Long before I knew I was sick, I knew I was breakable . . .' After years of unexplained health problems, Polly Atkin's perception of her body was rendered fluid and disjointed. When she was finally diagnosed with two chronic conditions in her thirties, she began to piece together what had been happening to her - all the misdiagnoses, the fractures, the dislocations, the bone-crushing exhaustion, the not being believed.
Some of Us Just Fall combines memoir, pathography and nature writing to trace a fascinating journey through illness, a journey which led Polly to her current home in the Lake District, where outdoor swimming is purported to cure all, and where every day she turns to the natural world to help tame her illness. Polly delves into the history of her two genetic conditions, uncovering how these illnesses were managed (or not) in times gone by and exploring how best to plan for her own future.
From medical misogyny and gaslighting, to the illusion of 'the nature cure', this essential, beautiful and deeply personal book examines how we deal with bodies that diverge from the norm, and why this urgently needs to change.
This is not a book about getting better. This is a book about living better with illness.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781961884007
ISBN-10: 1961884003
Pagini: 301
Dimensiuni: 142 x 218 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Unnamed Press
ISBN-10: 1961884003
Pagini: 301
Dimensiuni: 142 x 218 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Unnamed Press
Notă biografică
Polly Atkin is a multi-award-winning poet, essayist, nature writer and academic in the UK. She has taught both English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of London, Strathclyde University, Lancaster University and University of Cumbria. Her doctoral research focused on Romantic legacies and literary geographies of the Lake District, northwest England, in collaboration with the Wordsworth Trust. In 2022 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She works as a freelancer from her home in Grasmere, in the English Lake District. Her first poetry collection Basic Nest Architecture (Seren: 2017) is followed by Much With Body (Seren, 2021), a PBS Winter 2021 recommendation and Laurel Prize 2022 longlistee. She has also published three poetry chapbooks: bone song (Aussteiger, 2008), Shadow Dispatches (Seren, 2013) and With Invisible Rain (New Walk: 2018). Her biography Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Saraband, 2021), is the first to focus on Dorothy's later life and illness. Her work is included in anthologies of nature writing, ecopoetry and walking literature, including the UK's first anthology of nature writing by disabled and chronically ill writers, Moving Mountains (Footnote, 2023).
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A raw and exquisite meditation on chronic illness and our place within the landscape, from prize-winning poet Polly Atkin
A raw and exquisite meditation on chronic illness and our place within the landscape, from prize-winning poet Polly Atkin