POETIC MEDICINE: WRITING AND THE BODY
Willy Lit Fest
“Shaping the Fractured Self takes trauma and experience head on, showing how poetry expands our sense of community and beauty.” Andy Jackson.
What power does the act of writing have for those facing chronic illness and disability? Does suffering inhibit or inspire a creative response? Is poetry therapy, exploration, liberation or protest? Three brilliant and original writers from Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of Chronic Illness and Pain in conversation at Williamstown Literary Festival – Leah Kaminsky, Andy Jackson and Rachael Guy.
Shaping the Fractured Self showcases twenty-eight of Australia’s finest poets who happen to live with chronic illness and pain. The autobiographical short essays, in conjunction with the three poems from each of the poets, capture the body in trauma in its many and varied moods. Because those who live with chronic illness and pain experience shifts in their relationship to it on a yearly, monthly or daily basis, so do the words they use to describe it.
Shaping the Fractured Self gives voice to sufferers, carers, medical practitioners and researchers, building understanding in a community of caring.
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