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A Hospital Odyssey (Paperback)
$14.15 - Save $1.57 (9%) - RRP $15.72 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for A Hospital Odyssey"A Hospital Odyssey" is a book-length epic poem by one of Britain's leading younger poets, universal but also highly topical in what it says about cancer, caring for loved ones and the workings of the NHS.
Full description- Publisher: BLOODAXE BOOKS LTD
- Published: 28 January 2010
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9781852248772 ISBN 10: 1852248777
- Sales rank: 322,024
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Full description for A Hospital Odyssey
"A Hospital Odyssey" is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on the most recent biomedical research into stem cells and cancer, the poem is a journey through the body's inner space and the strange habitats created by disease, including the chimeras people see when they're unwell. Maris, whose husband, Hardy, has been diagnosed with cancer, is separated from him. Her mythical journey leads though a surreal landscape, peopled by true and false physicians, god-celebrities, rabid statues, diseases hunting healthy bodies and a microbes holding their annual ball. The Otherworld is located in the hospital's basement. In her desperate search Maris meets and converses with Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS. Immensely readable, "A Hospital Odyssey" is a modern epic: "Dr Who" meets "Paradise Lost". The poem asks: what is health? And what does it mean to care for someone who's ill?
