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Cancer poetry

Iain Twiddy (Author)
This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery. -- From publisher's website
Print Book, English, 2015
Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2015
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 232 pages ; 23 cm
9781137361998, 9781137362001, 1137361999, 1137362006
909320497
Cancer poetry: an introduction
Spousal cancer: the flowering of grief
Parental cancer: the functions of repression
Locating breast cancer
Surviving cancer
Terminal words: conversing with cancer
Paul Muldoon: cancer and the ethics of representation
Fierce verse: cancer and imaginative redress
Remission