Sara Ryan ist eine Dichterin, deren akademische Interessen sich auf materielle Kultur und Kritik, poetische Formen, hybrides Schreiben und den lyrischen Essay konzentrieren. Ihre Arbeit bewegt sich geschickt im Zusammenspiel von Bild und Text und bietet den Lesern eine einzigartige Perspektive. Durch ihre sorgfältig ausgearbeiteten Verse erforscht Ryan die Feinheiten menschlicher Erfahrung mit einer unverwechselbaren Stimme, die in der zeitgenössischen Poesie Anklang findet.
Sie spüren es vom ersten Moment an, dieses Knistern in der Luft, das Gefühl von Schmetterlingen im Bauch. Im Ferienlager lernen sie sich kennen, Nicola und die schöne Battle, die immer dachten, sie ticken nur für Jungs. Langsam kommen sie sich näher und ganz behutsam und leise entwickelt sich zwischen ihnen eine zarte Liebesbeziehung.
After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the bleak expanses of snow. These poems have teeth, bones, and blood—they clack and bruise and make loud sounds. They interrogate self-preservation, familial history, extinction, taxidermy, and animal and female bodies. In between these lines, in warm places where blood collects, animals stay hidden and hunted, a girl looks loneliness dead in the eye, and wolves come out of the woods to run across the frozen water of Lake Superior.
After moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, poet Sara Ryan found herself immersed in the isolated spaces of the North: the cold places that never thawed, the animals that stayed hidden and hunted. As she struggled with loneliness, cruelty, and the bleak romantic expanses of the UP, she saw her own body reflected in the bodies of animals. These poems have teeth and bones and blood—they interrogate self-preservation, familial history, extinction, taxidermy, and a fascination with animal and female bodies. Grief, death, loss, recovery, and rebirth dwell in the soft spaces of this book. The poems are a skeleton, strong and unflinching. They clack and bruise and make loud sounds. But in between the lines, in the warm places where the blood hides, that is where the animals dwell, where the wolves come out of the woods and run across the frozen surface of Lake Superior. Ryan writes about the animal body because it is the body she can control. She navigates the deaths of animals, the knives and guns that kill them, the preservation of their skins; she sees her own body in the animal—in that wolf, that horse, that crow. She sees her body in the animal that is preyed upon. The animal presence in this book leads to a discourse with the female body that is urgent and necessary. This collection of poems is about terrible and beautiful things; pain and what lies beyond it.
Find some pockets of brilliance for your practice! Insights and inspiration from families of learning disabled people, who share their lives, challenges and wishes. Discover what sorts of help will really help the people you support.
A personal account from the mother of Connor Sparrowhawk, a teenager with autism and epilepsy, who died due to neglect while in a specialist NHS unit. After Connor's death, Dr Sara Ryan started the #JusticeforLB campaign, which uncovered a wider failure by the NHS to appropriately care for people with learning difficulties.