Coracle
A philosophical, political and personal reflection on Alzheimer’s and care.
Available from all good bookshops (ISBN: 9781909703872) direct from my publisher Live Canon, your local library or from me: £10 inc, p&p & some forget-me-not seeds. Just drop me a line.
Also do say hello if you are interested in running creative health workshops with the poems, I have a workshop series outline that I have created and used that I'm very happy to share.
Thanks for being part of the voyage.
Here is the title poem https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/my-father-in-his-coracle/
And some early reviews: Helen Mort: 'This is a collection we urgently need, examining the politics of care with nuance and generosity. Jane's work is certain to touch (and change) the lives of many.'
Caroline Bird: ‘How do you find a poetic form for Alzheimer’s? Jane Thomas takes on this challenge with all of the seriousness, playfulness and mental elasticity required to care for a loved one. Like the brain itself, her poetic forms melt and shift; words slip away or bubble to the surface, images disintegrate yet find new meaning within that dissolution, and beauty is salvaged from the fragments. A work of huge invention and heart.’
"Such an impressively sustained study... empathetic, straight in the eye, unsentimental but very moving." Will Harris