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
desperate search Maris meets and converses with Aneurin Bevan,
founder of the NHS. Immensely readable, "A Hospital Odyssey" is a
modern epic: Dr Who meets Paradise Lost. The poem asks: what is
health? And what does it mean to care for someone who's ill?
Gwyneth Lewis's dramatisation of A Hospital Odyssey was broadcast
as Radio 4's Afternoon Drama on 26 June 2014.
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