How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work,
and in love? Tiffany Atkinson's fourth collection includes the
prize-winning sequence 'Dolorimeter', which takes fragments of
speech and found text from a hospital residency to pay homage to
the inventiveness and humour of patients and staff in a series of
meditations on the notion that pain resists language. Away from the
wards, other poems consider the strangeness of the workplace and
the embarrassing incursions of desire into everyday life,
celebrating the ability of poetic language to lay awkwardness and
uncertainty alongside unexpected openings and glimpses of
revelation. A lumen is a unit of light, but also a channel or an
opening inside the body; perhaps, in this collection, it may also
serve as a metaphor for the work of the poem itself. Poetry Book
Society Recommendation.
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