The Hard Word Box - Softcover

Hesketh, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908058226 ISBN 13: 9781908058225

Publisher: Penned in the Margins, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Hesketh is a poet and freelance project manager. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from UEA and her work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies including The White Review, Soundings, Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot and Binders Full of Women. In 2007 her collaboration with composer Alastair Caplin was performed at the Leeds Lieder Festival. Her first collection of poetry, Napoleon's Travelling Bookshelf, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2009. In 2013-14 she was a poet in residence with Age Concern Central Lancashire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908058226
• ISBN 13: 9781908058225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88