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Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions: Short Poems from Long Covid
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Life isn't for the faint-hearted – nor is living with chronic illness. Fatigue, resilience, loneliness, friendship, small joys, healing moments, new perspectives: here are forty-one short poems that offer bite-sized comfort and connection, for anyone in need of a tonic. This brand-new debut poetry collection includes helpful resources for Long Covid.
'Brave, thoughtful, funny at times and almost unbearably poignant at others...I think these poems will comfort many readers, and educate still more. I already have a growing list of people I can't wait to share this book with' ––Sarah Salway, poet & novelist
'Many of us have tried to communicate the complexity of the Long Covid experience...but not many have done it as well as A. K. Davidson. Brought me to tears immediately' ––Gez Medinger, author of The Long Covid Handbook
'Absolutely brilliant' ––Dr Tara George, Bedside Reading Podcast
'If you have Long Covid you will find a friend in this' ––Kate McLachlan, Covid Support Community
'Absolutely wonderful' ––Jemma Bella, on Instagram
'Expressive, thoughtful, emotional and emotive...I could relate immensely' ––Julie Taylor, Living with Long Covid Podcast
'Surprisingly funny, touching, and uplifting. I'm going to shout it from the rooftops: everyone should get a copy of this book' ––Sarah, Long Haul Yogi
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Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions - A. K. Davidson
This book is dedicated to everyone who feels they have in some way disappeared.
Contents
Introduction
A Note on the Poems
Ululating
Long Haul
Today
Disclaimer
Favourite Pastimes #1
Things I Can No Longer Do Because of Long Covid
Invitation
Fatigue
Favourite Pastimes #2
Highly Sensitive Person
The Art of Pacing
Left Out
Brain Training
Rehab: Shouty Frustrated Poem
Prospects
People-Pleaser
Making the Best of It
Yoga Nidra
Lifeline
Favourite Pastimes #3
Pandiculation
Inner Light
The Supplements etc. Song, with apologies to Tom Lehrer
Crash
Resolution
Visible
Bend and Snap!
Bored. Lonely.
Paid-up Member
Favourite Pastimes #4
Well Dressed
Empathy Gap
Grief
Favourite Pastimes #5
Savour This
Solution
You Do You
Much Ado
I Am
Here for You
High Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography & Resources
Notes on Recovery
Introduction
The poems in this collection are about my experience of life with Long Covid. If just one of them comforts or entertains someone else grappling with chronic illness – whether that’s Long Covid, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), or any other condition – then my decision to share them with the world will have been a good one.
Having Long Covid deconstructs you. To recover, almost everything you take for granted about your life probably has to change: diet, exercise, work, relationships, the way you breathe, and, above all, how you think. You must rebuild yourself into someone new. This is interesting, but hard.
I don’t think any lesser experience could have prompted me to start writing poetry. It’s not something I’d done before 2022, with the exception of school English lessons and a workshop once at the University of Kent. In the depths of illness, though – as many before me have discovered – there seemed no other adequate form of expression. It’s also a
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