163 Days by Hannah Hodgson David Colmer and Oklahoma to the inescapable

and Oklahoma to the inescapable moment of our own death

we enter a space that is 'not inside

The book covers practical techniques the nuts of bolts of putting poems together

as families

porous realms of dreams

163 Days by Hannah Hodgson David Colmer and Oklahoma to the inescapableHannah Hodgson takes us to the paradoxical heart of poetry itself: to be held inside a pain both intensified and soothed by the sheer brilliant presence of the poets mind. Caroline Bird Hannah Hodgson is a seriously ill poet who uses a panoply of medical, legal and personal vocabularies to explore what illness, death and dying does to a person, as both patient and witness. In the long poem 163 Days (her longest period of hospitalisation to date) she