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Surviving Cancer at Both Ends.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crew, Bob.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (79 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Luton, Bedfordshire : MX Publishing, Limited, 2023.
- Summary:
- Powerful poetry from the killing fields of cancer about the nature of mouth cancer and prostate cancer and how one survivor has survived these diseases for eleven years.Neil Vickers, Lecturer in Literature and Medicine at King's College, University of London: 'Cancer at Both Ends has tremendous value. It is rare to find real poetry on these subjects. This is subtle and powerful verse. Really terrific. I admire the strength of character, the humour and the willingness to embrace the very uncomfortable truth that there is no reason why we should not get cancer. Wonderful poetry.'Michael Lee, 2003 Editor of Poems in the Waiting Room: 'Cancer at Both Ends is a remarkable collection - an impressive, stirring record. Medicine has been classically defined as the study of the progress of disease through the morbid anatomy. Bob Crew's work is a healthy response. It is exceptionally strong and moving with a life-giving touch of humour.Professor Michael Baum, Cancer Surgeon and fo.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Praise for "Surviving Cancer at Both Ends"
- Preface
- Surviving Cancer
- Surviving Cancer at Both Ends
- Poetry of the Poisoned Mouth
- Wiping the 2003 Smile from Your Face
- Oncology
- A Visit to the Maxillofacial Department
- Cheerfully or Otherwise
- Bewildered
- Choose Your Parents Carefully!
- Secretive Fruit
- Unignorable
- Loose Ends and Nerve Ends
- A Visit to the Mould Room
- Enough is Enough
- Eaten Alive
- Up Against It
- Becoming Cancer
- Heroic Memories
- Scanned to Death
- Camouflage
- Don't Ask, Don't Care
- Without Self-Pity
- Question-Mark Days
- Cancer Awareness Weeks
- Complexity Theory
- Laughter the Best Medicine
- Morbid Anatomies
- A Fake Remedy?
- Cancer at Both Ends
- A Finger up the Bum
- Lucky Sod
- Between His Legs
- Poetry and Cancer
- Thought Waves
- The Acid Test of Cancer Poetry
- Back Matter
- Dedication
- Also Available.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80424-174-1
- 1-80424-173-3
- OCLC:
- 1411787365
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