163 Days Lewis Freedman each of them dealing with

each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way

Pliny the Younger only sees fireflies

the poems are always alert to the comic and the everyday

It is the overheard world

With the weather closing in and the roads treacherous

163 Days Lewis Freedman each of them dealing withHannah 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