single window - Softcover

Daniel Sluman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191343723X ISBN 13: 9781913437237

Publisher: Nine Arches Press, 2021

Synopsis

Daniel Sluman’s third collection, single window, is a hybrid memoir of poetry and images.

One an amputee with chronic pain, the other suffering from Crohn's Disease and Fibromyalgia, Daniel Sluman and his wife Emily found the year of 2016 almost untenable. Unable to safely navigate the stairs to bed, they spent 24 hours a day together on their sofa, isolated from society except for a single window, where they watched the world moving around them.

An uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of poems in the form of a journal, documenting the realities of disabled people living in Tory Britain. A precise, hyper-confessional fusion of poetry and photography, exploring intimacy and unconditional love as well as isolation and confinement, revealing a glimpse into a world that most people will otherwise never see.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Sluman is a poet and disability rights activist. He co-edited the first major UK Disability anthology Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back. His second collection 'the terrible' was published by Nine Arches Press in 2015. He has appeared widely in UK poetry journals and his third collection, ‘single window’, about living with disability and chronic pain, is published by Nine Arches Press in September 2021.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nine Arches Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191343723X
• ISBN 13: 9781913437237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72