Lumen

by Tiffany Atkinson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780375301
• ISBN13: 9781780375304
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"