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7th September 2017
Poetry

Disappearance without absence: Book Launch on National Poetry Day

  In my role as Associate Editor at Waterloo Press, I was honoured this year to help publish a book of profoundly moving poems, Disappearance without absence/Desapariencia no engaña, by Néstor Ponce, exquisitely translated by Max Ubelaker Andrade. Written in honour of the ‘disappeared’, the book is a testament to those thousands of individuals targeted for death and erasure by…

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Argentina Max Ubelaker Andrade Nestor Ponce The Disappeared

The front cover of No Enemy but Time
16th July 2017
Poetry

No Enemy but Time: A New Pamphlet of Old Poems

Being cured of cancer last year gave me a powerful sense of priorities. It seems that keeping up with this blog wasn’t one of them . . . Instead, in between a short course of radiotherapy and an unexpected return to hospital to treat a broken ankle (!), I’ve thrown myself into book production mode. Currently I’m finishing the final…

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Belfast Book Festival Con Markievicz Eva Gore Booth Mairtin Crawford Moyra Donaldson The Crescent Arts Centre W.B. Yeats

A glass bell
31st December 2016
Book Reviews, Cancer Journey, Environmentalism, Poetry

Farewell to 2016 – and Cancer

What a year. When it comes to traumas we’re spoiled for choice, but as Amnesty International and Greenpeace remind us, 2016 also brought many victories for humanity and the planet. Here at home, I’ve been celebrating the official All Clear, which clear as a bell, arrived with impeccable timing on Dec 23rd. I’ve still got follow-treatments to come, but to…

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Aki Ollikainen Audre Lorde Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Clare Best Emily Jeremiah Eva Saulitis Fleur Jeremiah Jo Shapcott Leonard Cohen Myra Schneider Thomas Mann Wendy Klein

7th December 2016
Cancer Journey, Equality and Diversity, Poetry

From Indeterminate Cats to Interfaith Cathedrals

From Schrodinger’s Cat to Salisbury Cathedral, Prague castle to the Princess Royal Hospital, my cancer journey has come full circle, back to a strangely euphoric, possibly disease-free state. As I wrote in June, in the days just prior to my diagnosis, I felt both terminally ill and joyously alive; now, having just had an operation to remove four lymph nodes…

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Halima Hussain Hodan Yusuf-Pankhurst Inclusive Mosque Initiative Mizan the Poet Muslim Institute Naima Khan Salisbury Usama Hasan

Actor dressed as cancer cells
21st November 2016
Cancer Journey, Disability, Environmentalism, Equality and Diversity, Politics

‘A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer’ . . . and Fascism

I’m home from a weekend in London where, with the help of wonderful friends and a small wheelie suitcase I celebrated the end of chemo by taking a few baby steps back into the world beyond Brighton hospital clinics – and a big breath of freedom before my operation on Dec 6th. Thanks to the success of my chemotherapy cycles,…

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A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer Diversity Donald Trump Fascism

3rd November 2016
Cancer Journey

A Farewell to Chemo: With Fireworks!

First, a blockbuster blossom: last Monday I got the results of an MRI scan taken after my fourth chemo session, and it showed NO CANCER in my breast. Why hasn’t she mentioned this before, you may ask? Well, like Bob Dylan after his Nobel Prize announcement, I was speechless. Even though my surgeon had been confident my tumour would shrink…

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Breast cancer Bryony Kimmings chemotherapy Ernest Hemingway Herceptin Judith Dimant The Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer white blood cell count

15th October 2016
Uncategorized

Shelter from the Storm: Dylan Trumps Chemo

After the gusty gales of the past four months it was fabulous to celebrate turning a corner in my cancer treatment this Thursday night, when I read some new poems at the Red Hen/Pighog Pigbaby Rides Again poetry party, sharing a stage in the glamorous Paganini Ballroom of Brighton’s Old Ship Hotel with transatlantic barnstormers Maria Jastrzebska, Ciaran O’Driscoll, Hugh…

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Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan Donald Trump Idiot Wind Pighog Press Red Hen Press Tangled Up in Blue

19th September 2016
Cancer Journey, Mental Health

My Cancer Journey: Incubating Integration

  Last week marked a major turning point in my cancer journey, and not just because I am now a) bald and b) receiving a so-called ‘wonder drug’ that will most likely save my life. It was also a week which brought great news about the progress of my treatment so far, and a welcome second opinion on my upcoming…

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Blake Breast cancer Cancer Options chemotherapy Herceptin hypnotherapy integrative medicine Jung lymphedema Yes to Life

12th August 2016
Cancer Journey, Uncategorized

Shrödinger’s Breast Lump

Trapped in a box with a radioactive particle that would inevitably at some point decay, triggering the release of a fatal poison, until the lid was lifted, Shrödinger’s cat was infamously (and ridiculously in Shrödinger’s mind – his thought experiment was designed to critique a branch of quantum physics) both dead and alive. The indeterminate feline was much on my…

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Breast cancer Prague Shrodinger's cat

The US edition of Seoul Survivors, with a bowl of Korean food.
2nd August 2016
Novels, Seoul Survivors, Uncategorized

Seoul Survivors Blasts Off (Again!)

  A hole in the Gatwick main runway, transport chaos across Europe due to unseasonal storms, a cross-continental epidemic of terrorist attacks, including the assassination of Jo Cox, the flames of Syria still raging unabated while the UK news is all of Brexit, British political convulsions, and the Clinton-Trump mud-flinging match: it’s been a pretty tempestuous summer so far, and…

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David Lynch Jo Fletcher Books Kathy Acker Lee Bul Margaret Atwood Mia Yun QuercusUSA Seoul Survivors William Gibson

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