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One hundred poems by deaf, disabled & neurodivergent poets

100 poems by deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets

One hundred poems by deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets

Hexham, England : Bloodaxe Books, 2025.

208 pages ; 24 cm

"Poetry Book Society recommendation" - cover.

Medicine mantra for the road / Khandro Langri -- First thing, I am a forest / Jen Campbell -- Night seasons / Stephen Kuusisto -- I am too pretty for some 'ugly laws' / Lateef McLeod -- At the Holiday gas station / John Lee Clarke -- Misfit / Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay -- When the body / Linda Hogan -- I take into my arms more than I can bear to hold / Janet Frame -- An evanescent garden / Jane Burn -- Eviction / Airea D. Matthews -- In another life, I am twenty-two, gifted and curious / Chisom Okafor -- The endlessness / Ada Limón -- A small disunified theory / heidi andrea restrepo rhodes -- having been / Sandra Alland -- Song not for you / Andy Jackson -- Crip fairy godmother / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- Chewing my pen / Hoshino Tomihito -- Against complaint / Roddy Lumsden -- and bulbul means heart / Kerri Shying -- Epicenter / Naomi Ortiz -- It must still be summer / Meg Day -- from Featherbone / Erica Mena -- Afternoon with circus and citadel / Paul Celan -- 'Having deprived me...' / Osip Mandelstam -- Skipping without ropes / Jack Mapanje -- 6 errant thoughts on being a refugee / Sarah Lubala -- Kulila / Ali Cobby Eckermann -- Duplex Uol Sa Utang Na Loob / Steffi Tad-y -- a musical malady / JK Anowe -- The sleeping boy / Riyad al-Saleh al-Hussein -- Tub / Khairani Barokka -- Medical history / Urvashi Bahuguna -- For Tyrone Givans / Raymond Antrobus -- from A different distance / Karthika Naïr (& Marilyn Hacker)-- The room / William Soutar -- You who cross my path / Erez Bitton -- Here in Vĩ Dạ Hamlet / Hàn M̆ạc Tuʼ -- 1898 summer / Masaoka Shiki -- Evening summer rain / Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez -- Sick 4 sick / Kay Ulanday Barrett -- Bournemouth / Kathryn Gray -- The ABD (able-bodied gaze) / Therese Estacion -- Dyspraxia ode / David Wheatley -- riddym ravings (the mad woman's poem) / Jean 'Binta' Breeze -- V / Levant Beşkardèş -- Craniosacral rhythms / Petra Kuppers -- Injections / Shahd Alshammari -- Five litres of blue / Dean Atta -- No / Ona Gritz -- Disabled person's travel card / Nuala Watt -- What wasn't said to the doctor / Mishka Hoosen -- Hand-writing practice / Kate Davis -- Flesh / Kerry Hardie -- Shrike tree / Lucia Perillo -- ETC. THE RESISTANCE / Stephanie Heit -- Essay fragment: medical model of disability / torrin a. greathouse -- Camel girl / Madailín Burnhope -- the beautiful / Daniel Sluman -- A leaky boat / Yu Xiuhua -- The Rapture / Cynthia Huntington -- Fibrotic / Jamie Hale -- Will I? / Gwyneth Lewis -- Beneath the waves / Iyanuoluwa Adenle -- Erupture / Adrienne Leddy -- You tear out my tongue / Rachel Johnson -- Disabled world nation / Leroy F. Moore Jr. -- That map of bone and opened valves / Ilya Kaminsky -- Why am I silent about the lament / Abdullah al-Baradouni -- A sparrow in my cell / G.N. Saibaba -- Dog fox field / Les Murray -- Exuviae / Gaele Sobott -- Song-maker / Anita Endrezze -- Letter to a young poet / Megan Fernandes -- Blackbird and Beethoven / Lisa Kelly -- The Alice case / Joanne Limburg -- Once a day / Frank Ormsby -- Bluff / Zuo You -- Ode to diabetes / Brandi Bird -- Self-portrait as the BLK girl becoming the beast everyone thought she was / I.S. Jones -- Snouts / Selima Hill -- A field guide to stares / Karl Knights -- Tinniō / Saleem Hue Penny -- The subaltern dreams of big / Kei Miller -- After viewing the carved trees exhibition / Gayle Kennedy -- Loam / Shiki Itsuma -- Not all, only a few return / Agha Shahid Ali -- Rain song / Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb -- from A soldier in a madhouse / Golan Haji -- Now let the weeping cease / Cyrée Jarelle Johnson -- I accept the task from the sun / Cat Chong -- Plague poems / Anthony Vahni Capildeo -- Breath test / Polly Atkin -- Dancing with a doctor / Hannah Hodgson -- Keratoconus / Kwame Dawes -- Scabies vs Predator / Aaron Kent -- [subterranean / dreaming grace roots] / Nat Raha -- Alphabetula / Josephine Dickinson -- Having it out with melancholy / Jane Kenyon -- Bac du Sauvage / Pascale Petit -- You can't / Maya Abu al-Hayyat.