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Crash & Burn

Michael O'Neill

Crash & Burn

In Crash & Burn, Michael O'Neill describes his treatment for cancer of the oesophagus.

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Return of the Gift

Michael O'Neill

Return of the Gift

Michael O'Neill's Return of the Gift is a volume about what is given and what is lost.

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A Year in the Bull-Box

Glyn Hughes

A Year in the Bull-Box

Glyn Hughes was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer in 2009. He had recently been granted use of an isolated stone hut - the "Bull-Box" - in the Ribble Valley and the time spent there and in its environs was a major part of his healing. This poem sequence describes the experience.

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Apology for Absence

Julia Darling

Apology for Absence

Julia Darling's second collection was completed a little over a year after Sudden Collapses in Public Places, and looks at the world beyond the hospital, although still from the view-point of a cancer patient in the advanced stages of the illness.

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Sudden Collapses in Public Places

Julia Darling

Sudden Collapses in Public Places

Anyone who has ever spent any time in a hospital or in a hospital waiting room will love these poems; anyone who has ever been to the doctor or felt ill or had to fill in a form will love these poems. That covers everyone. Here are poems about a difficult, scary subject, cancer, that circle around it lightly, on light dancing feet, and every so often whack you on the head. Oddly enough, Sudden Collapses is compulsively readable...

Jackie Kay
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