163 DaysHannah Hodgson is a seriously ill poet, who uses a panoply of vocabularies to evoke the medical, the poetic and professional to explore what illness, death and dying does to a young person, as both patient and witness . 163 Days is the longest hospitalisation she has had to date and so, with this as a scaffold she charts how medical, legal and personal truths clash as loudly as a dropped tray of instruments in a silent operating theatre. In this long

Described by the Guardian as a ‘sceptical

the first of which are to express their thoughts and the abolition of all forms of censorship on audio-visual media and literature

An experiment in rewriting masculinity

It describes the dedication and devotion needed to attain the level of playing that few manage to get to

In more than 100 recipes with alcohol as the key ingredient

the Intifadas

Baudelaire

said Goethe

She writes about these with the same tenderness and sensitivity that she writes about the wide range of people that pass through her world - all marked by the human mix of the heroic and the pathetic

Theatre of Dreams

to be shared with your other half at your own risk

enticing them into a world where vendettas