Kin

By Karl Knights

Karl Knights' Kin meet inside hospitals and grow up in waiting rooms and hospital cafeterias where 'nobody stares'. These are poems of survival in the face of disability and years of austerity; they are memorials to those who did not make it, powerful and sharply observed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Poetry Business
• Release date: May 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781914914294

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Published 2022 by

New Poets List

An imprint of The Poetry Business

Campo House,

54 Campo Lane,

Sheffield S1 2EG

Copyright © Karl Knights 2022

All Rights Reserved

ISBN 978-1-914914-28-7

eBook ISBN 978-1-914914-29-4

Typeset by The Poetry Business

Printed by Biddles, Sheffield

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The Poetry Business gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council England.

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Contents

Growing Pains

I Have a Literal Mind

A Speech Impediment

The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit Tin

How to Wheel

Pushing My Sister

My Wards

First Meeting

Physio

The Spastic’s Guide to Sex

Adulting

Appointment in Clinic K

Kin

Keeping Up

Arthur Honeyman’s Birthday, 3am 1970

Hospital Coffee

The Night Before My PiP Tribunal I See My Dead

Dear Legs

For all my kin

Growing Pains

I didn’t know I was disabled.

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