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In 2013 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.

The Hard Word Box: A Poet's Exploration of Dementia and Ageing

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In 2013 poet Sarah Hesketh spent 20 weeks visiting a residential care home for people with dementia. The result is... Read more

    Publisher: Penned in the Margins
    Publication Date: 05/12/2014
    ISBN13: 9781908058225, 978-1908058225
    ISBN10: 1908058226

    Number of Pages: 87

    Fiction , Poetry

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    In 2013 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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