26 September 2014
5pm - 10pm
York Medical Society (map)
FREE admission
No booking required
Wheelchair accessible
(through the garden)
The project “Order, Chaos and Chronic Illness” explores how we talk, think and write about long lasting health conditions or disease through the medium of poetry. It considers how reading and/or writing poetry impacts on a person’s wellbeing, exploring the possibility suggested by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre in 2012 that poetry can open a different way of articulating and communicating the lived experience of chronic illness (and research into chronic illness), “emphasising in its singular way discontinuity, surprise, and the uneasy relationship between words and the life of the body”. You will be able to learn more about the project, read some of the work that was written in workshops, talk to people involved in the project and pick up a copy of the anthology that we are producing. Come and explore the exhibition, and find out more about this fusion of art and science.