Migraines: Nursing My Pain through Poetry
Catalina Florescu illustrates and explores the pain of her migraines in poetic form.
‘Creative Adaptation is our New Task’: Art and Chronic Illness
Artists Alec Finlay, Katie MacLachlan and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh reflect on art as witness to erased realities (part two of two).
Chronic Illness and Creative Recuperation
Three artists with Long Covid discuss their process of creative recuperation.
Heartbreak
In this creative essay, James Borton explores the lived experience of heart bypass surgery and recovery.
Beyond Illness Narratives and Representation: Sarcoma, Surgery and Photography
Yewande Okuleye reflects on the exhibition Close to the Bone: Patient Journeys Through Sarcoma at the Hunterian Museum, London.
What Are You Waiting For? Our living archive of waiting
In the sixth post of the Waiting Times takeover, Michael Flexer reflects on the process of enacting publicly engaged research and how a ‘living archive’ came into being. “The time on dialysis is dead
‘Chiasmic time’: Being-in-time in Time Being
In the fourth post of our Waiting Times series, Laura Salisbury and Lisa Baraitser reflect on Ruairí Corr and Deborah Robinson’s short film: Time Being. Time Being – a film commissioned by Waiting Times
Frequent Attenders: care and repetition in general practice
In the third post of our Waiting Times takeover series, Stephanie Davies and Martin Moore invite us to consider the figure of the ‘frequent attender’. In the face of repetition and chronicity, can care
Practice Research with Chronic Illness, Part 2
Jane Hartshorn continues her reflections on the challenges of creative writing practice as research while living with chronic illness.
Uncertain Household Objects
Brooke Bastie uses poetic form to imaginatively illustrate the uncertainty, repetition, and compulsion that pervades her experience of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). From uncertainty curdles a certainty often unnoticed. What I mean is that in