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Order, chaos and chronic illness

Richard Morley

  • 26 September 2014
    5pm - 10pm

  • York Medical Society (map)

  • FREE admission
    No booking required

  • Wheelchair accessible
    (through the garden)

Event details

The project “Order, Chaos and Chronic Illness” explores how we talk, think and write about long lasting health conditions or disease through the medium of poetry. It considers how reading and/or writing poetry impacts on a person’s wellbeing, exploring the possibility suggested by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre in 2012 that poetry can open a different way of articulating and communicating the lived experience of chronic illness (and research into chronic illness), “emphasising in its singular way discontinuity, surprise, and the uneasy relationship between words and the life of the body”. You will be able to learn more about the project, read some of the work that was written in workshops, talk to people involved in the project and pick up a copy of the anthology that we are producing. Come and explore the exhibition, and find out more about this fusion of art and science.