Ovarium E-Book

Joanna Ingham

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 22

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Tender, loving and visceral, Ovarium is a pamphlet of poems about a giant ovarian cyst. The poet charts her journey with the cyst, from diagnosis to surgery to recovery, via a landscape of scanner rooms and hospital wards. The poems explore the impact of illness, and the body as a site of disgust and shame but also healing and endurance. Ingham's poems are forensic as she looks at the disorientating and sometimes patriarchal language of anatomy and medicine, and the way illness can change the relationship we have with our own bodies. I tried to think of you as fruit, growing against the sun-warm wall of my gut. Melon-headed, you nudged the leafy organs, dug out a place for yourself in the plot. I never guessed. I was only bloody earth to you, a coldframe full of light. - from 'Cyst'

Leseprobe

OVARIUM

PRAISEFOROVARIUM

‘‘I tried to think of you as fruit, growing/against the sun-warm wall of my gut.’ And so begins Joanna Ingham’s Ovarium, a piercing study of one woman’s diagnosis, the resulting fear, and then quest to understand the complexities of her own body. In poems that both surprise and inform, Ingham gives us the female body under threat, under examination, under male scrutiny, and refuses to censor or sanitise. The writing is beautiful, accomplished; each observation raw and moving. I dare you not to feel excited and enriched.’ —Rebecca Goss

‘This stunning and beautifully crafted pamphlet by Joanna Ingham reads a little like a love letter to a lost ovary. Ingham explores how sudden and unexpected illness can inhabit us, making us hyper aware of parts of our body we rarely pay attention to, and how hospitals (and medical professionals) while saving us can also dehumanise us – becoming both devil and saviour. A compulsive and exciting read.’ —Julia Webb

‘Reading Joanna Ingham’s Ovarium is a revelation. Imaginative, incisive and often disturbing, Ingham’s latest pamphlet unravels the hidden power, guises and secrets of women. It offers an original cartography of women’s bodies, mapping out the visible pains and triumphs as well as invisible taboos and trauma.’ —Jennifer Wong

POETRYPAMPHLETS

how the first sparks became visible, by Simone Atangana

Bekono, tr. from Dutch by David Colmer

do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom, by Rachael Matthews

With others in your absence, by Zosia Kuczyńska

Sandsnarl, by Jon Stone

This House, by Rehema Njambi

is, thinks Pearl, by Julia Bird

What the House Taught Us, by Anne Bailey

Overlap, by Valerie Bence

The Fabulanarchist Luxury Uprising, by Jack Houston

The Bell Tower, by Pamela Crowe

Milk Snake, by Toby Buckley

SHORTSTORIES

The Secret Box, by Daina Tabūna, tr. from Latvian by Jayde Will

Tiny Moons: A year of eating in Shanghai, by Nina Mingya Powles

Postcard Stories 2, by Jan Carson

Hailman, by Leanne Radojkovich

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Pilgrim, by Lisabelle Tay, illustrated by Reena Makwana

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