ISBN: 9781913437237 

Price: £9.99

Publication date: 30^th September 2021

Format: Paperback

Extent: 72pp

Daniel Sluman’s third collection, single window is a hybrid memoir of poetry and images.

One an amputee with chronic pain, the other suffering from Crohn's Disease and Fibromyalgia, Daniel Sluman and his wife Emily found the year of 2016 almost untenable. Unable to safely navigate the stairs to bed, they spent 24 hours a day together on their sofa, isolated from society except for a single window, where they watched the world moving around them.

single window is an incomparable, uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of poems in the form of a journal, which bear witness to the loneliness and fear experienced by disabled people living in Tory Britain. Through Sluman's precise, hyper-confessional fusion of poetry and photography, this book documents the realities of disabled lives, exploring intimacy and unconditional love as well as isolation and confinement, and revealing a glimpse into a world that most people will otherwise never see.

About the author:

Daniel Sluman is a poet and disability rights activist. He co-edited the first major UK Disability anthology Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, and his second collection the terrible was published by Nine Arches Press in 2015. He has appeared widely in UK poetry journals and his third collection of poetry, single window, about living with disability and chronic pain, is due to be published by Nine Arches Press in September 2021.