Open Diagnosis
by Susan Wicks
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Susan Wicks's Singing Underwater was awarded the Aldeburgh Festival Prize for Best First Book of Poems of 1992. Sean O'Brien, in the Sunday Times, described it as 'astringent and surprising', while John Forth, analysing its mixture of qualities in the London Magazine, spoke of 'poems which hop across spaces you don't know you're missing until it's too late, or put out a sudden pleasurable probe which might be a sting'. Open Diagnosis takes it author into riskier and more intimate territory. show more Its central section forms a narrative which concerns her own brush with serious illness. show lessTags
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Susan Wicks is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Kent.
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