?The Patient' suffers a brain haemorrhage. Small World grows out of the days before and after. It has the authority of lived experience, beginning with what Price dubs ?existential family poems': honed, lyrical, they explore the dynamics of modern...
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?The Patient' suffers a brain haemorrhage. Small World grows out of the days before and after. It has the authority of lived experience, beginning with what Price dubs ?existential family poems': honed, lyrical, they explore the dynamics of modern life. Price's poems observe and reflect, revisiting and deepening the themes of his earlier books. These poems prepare us for the moment when the poet's lover, ?the Patient', is afflicted. At times angry and despairing, the poems evoke hospital conditions and social attitudes to the ill, but the main focus is on the intricate reality of living day t
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Contents; SMALL WORLD; An old drawer up beyond the children; The Mutual Satellite Assurance Company Limited; Cocktail hour; Book makers; Fold-up; A rising field; Little toes; Compartment; At the Modern; Mermaid in a wheelchair; Fifty per cent is by continuous assessment; Ninety per cent is by continuous assessment; Missing person; Namesake; Namesake; Faster!; Jazz syllabus; High red gates → prawns, pork; The paper doors; Initials; Manmade buoyancy; If you fall, or touch a line, your turn ends; Compartment; House martins; SMALL WORLD
Delicate greeneryBlue black permanent; Blue black permanent; Nimble, oblique; Initials; Pinnacle wordfinder; Prayer; IN MEMORY; Breaking point; Aphasia in last days; SMALL WORLD; Relatives Room; Under; The whole ocean; Cards; Valentine: Would love to meet; All the best; Corinne; Lift; As if the equal; Frank O'Hara was a curator; From Crete; Dominion claim; 'A second's scalding'; 'In the corner there'; Stella; cell; Storming; Talks about talks; If you fall, or touch a line, your turn ends; That passing place; Glasgow Coma Scale; She wakes in war poetry; Rose; Drugs or; Tilt table; Clip
JewelleryPhantom limb; Left neglect; It's work to sit still; São Paulo is no city for walkers; Dust in the tread; Introductions; Locked; Two Ians and a witch; An award-winning documentary; The Everfield; The Elderfield; Gallery; I am greatly changed; Release & the goodwill aquifers; AFTERWORD; Fliers; Copyright;
