163 Days Ruth Padel

163 Days Ruth PadelHannah Hodgson is a seriously ill poet, who uses a panoply of vocabularies to evoke the medical, the poetic and professional to explore what illness, death and dying does to a young person, as both patient and witness . 163 Days is the longest hospitalisation she has had to date and so, with this as a scaffold she charts how medical, legal and personal truths clash as loudly as a dropped tray of instruments in a silent operating theatre. In this long

at the University of Illinois

encountering stunning landscapes

triggering episodes that remind him of previous trauma

Christmas and Easter

But each group relates in different ways to colonialism and their failure to communicate openly about those differences leads to mutual suspicions that provide their enemies with the means to destroy them

whiffs of chemicals and disinfectants

translated by Paul Harris

But do you really know them

the Spanish magazine El Cultural dubbed it ‘una perlita’: ‘a little pearl’

the young widow of the poet Edward Thomas

Marianne Munk

The President’s Room is a mysterious tale based on the suspicion that a house is never just one single home