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The Hard Word Box
Overview
In 2013 the poet Sarah Hesketh spent 20 weeks visiting a residential care home for people with dementia. The result is The Hard Word Box, a book of poems and verbatim interviews that takes the reader on a surprising and enriching journey through memory and imagination.
The agility of Hesketh's poetic voice channels moments of tenderness, suffering and humour, revealing dementia as a negotiation with language and silence. The Hard Word Box is an inventive and compassionate meditation on the things that will be lost.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781908058225
- ISBN-10: 1908058226
- Publisher: Penned in the Margins
- Publish Date: December 2014
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.21 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
- Page Count: 88
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