Overview
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.
- | Author: Iain Twiddy
- | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Sep 09, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 241 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1137361999
- | ISBN-13: 9781137361998
