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Some of Us Just Fall - On Nature and Not Getting Better: Polly Atkin Some of Us Just Fall - On Nature and Not Getting Better
Polly Atkin
R671 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R137 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Recovering Dorothy - The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Paperback): Polly Atkin Recovering Dorothy - The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Paperback)
Polly Atkin
R314 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798-1803) and as the sister of the poet William Wordsworth. She is widely praised for her nature writing and is often remembered as a woman of great physical vitality. Less well known, however, is that Dorothy became seriously ill in 1829 and was mostly housebound for the last twenty years of her life. Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who finally grew to call herself a poet. They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother's success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother's shadow and back into her own life story.

Some of Us Just Fall - On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hardcover): Polly Atkin Some of Us Just Fall - On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hardcover)
Polly Atkin
R619 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R115 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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 Polly uses 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.

I Have Found a Song (Hardcover): Patience Agbabi, Polly Atkin, Valerie Bloom I Have Found a Song (Hardcover)
Patience Agbabi, Polly Atkin, Valerie Bloom; Illustrated by Sonia Boyce, Hew Locke, …
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I Have Found a Song" is a fascinating collection of poems and images published to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. It originated in a commission from Arts Council England for 12 poets to write on the theme of enslavement, which has resulted in a richly diverse selection of new poems. Interspersed with these are elaborate and exciting visual contributions by five artists invited by "Enitharmon Editions" to produce work on the same theme. The de luxe edition of the book is accompanied by a portfolio of signed original prints, and each artist has also contributed additional sequences of images reflecting on enslavement in its many forms. The poets include Patience Agbabi, Polly Atkin, Valerie Bloom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Fred D'Aguiar, Helen Dunmore, Bernardine Evaristo, Paul Farley, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Iain Sinclair, Hugo Williams, and Benjamin Zephaniah. The artists include Sonia Boyce, Hew Locke, Shanti Panchal, Chris Steele-Perkins, and Paula Rego.

Shadow Dispatches (Paperback): Polly Atkin Shadow Dispatches (Paperback)
Polly Atkin
R153 Discovery Miles 1 530 Out of stock

These atmospheric and keenly observational poems offer us a slant perspective on everyday things and events: the ugliness of an elderly mute swan; or a group of migraine sufferers forming a fellowship and holding regular meetings. Poems addressing the complexity of contemporary relationships sit alongside those riffing on traditional themes, even - in the case of 'Hermes Enodios' and 'Potnia Theron' - revisiting classical gods. These are poems embedded in particular landscapes, in which the real becomes surreal and vice versa. Together they form a poetry which is deeply involved with the natural world - concerned with deer in fields and jays in woods - but which is not in any way removed, encompassing email, photo-shop, and fighter jets.

Companions of Nature: A Lake Poets Anthology (Paperback): Will Smith, Polly Atkin Companions of Nature: A Lake Poets Anthology (Paperback)
Will Smith, Polly Atkin
R229 R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Save R43 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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