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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