163 Days by Hannah Hodgson David Colmer and Disko Bay is a

and Disko Bay is a meeting point for whalers and missionaries

Yuri Aikhenvald

we enter a space that is 'not inside

preferring simple

163 Days by Hannah Hodgson David Colmer and Disko Bay is aHannah Hodgson takes us to the paradoxical heart of poetry itself: to be held inside a pain both intensified and soothed by the sheer brilliant presence of the poets mind. Caroline Bird Hannah Hodgson is a seriously ill poet who uses a panoply of medical, legal and personal vocabularies to explore what illness, death and dying does to a person, as both patient and witness. In the long poem 163 Days (her longest period of hospitalisation to date) she