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Cosmo is a young boy whose life has been changed forever, after
falling out of the tree he loved to climb. Now, Cosmo is disabled
and uses a wheelchair. Now, Cosmo wants to have a conversation with
the tree. In this outstanding debut collection for children,
Stephen Lightbown draws on his own personal experiences as a
wheelchair user, while creating a unique and utterly engaging
character in Cosmo. Written in Cosmo’s voice and peppered with
contributions from the boy’s family, these poems take the reader
on a journey of challenges, questions, hurts, explorations and
triumphs. Cosmo is endlessly open and curious, and his observations
and reflections are at once perceptive, raw, hilarious, confronting
and enchanting. How can Cosmo come to terms with, and adapt to,
this seismic change in his life? Is his life as he knew it gone?
Could there be new possibilities ahead, and also new abilities that
Cosmo doesn't yet know he possesses? And will the tree ever reply
to his number one question:Â why?
A paraplegic wakes to find he is the sole survivor of an unknown
apocalypse. He decides to survive and spends a year navigating the
empty motorways of England to see if he really is the only one left
alive. He sets off with only his wheelchair and enough food and
medical supplies to last a week. To live beyond that he must adapt
and scavenge. Told through a daily account of poems he begins to
question his own identity, whether you are disabled if there is
no-one to be compared to and what does it mean to want to move
forwards.
Only Air is a deeply personal collection of poems which explore
what it is like to go through a life changing accident and then to
re-exist in a world that is suddenly unfamiliar. It is a story of
making sense of a new way of surviving and beliefs once held whilst
trying to overcome barriers, prejudices and labels. Sometimes
moving other times a wry humorous account of memories, this is part
biographical with a healthy mix of reflection. This collection
considers what it means to be part of a family, being alive when
you don't conform, and making your journey when the way you
perceive yourself is often very different to the ways others
observe you. At its very core, this is a discovery of what it means
to be normal and to regrow.
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