ILLNESS: A Narrative in Four Parts (Part Four)
Gillian Shirreffs uses poetry, prose and white space to explore lived experience of a chronic neurological illness. This is part four of an essay published in four parts this week. Click here for part
ILLNESS: A Narrative in Four Parts (Part Three)
Gillian Shirreffs uses poetry, prose and white space to explore lived experience of a chronic neurological illness. This is part three of an essay published in four parts this week. Click here for part
ILLNESS: A Narrative in Four Parts (Part Two)
Gillian Shirreffs uses poetry, prose and white space to explore lived experience of a chronic neurological illness. This is part two of an essay published in four parts this week. Click here for part
ILLNESS: A Narrative in Four Parts (Part One)
Gillian Shirreffs uses poetry, prose and white space to explore lived experience of a chronic neurological illness. This is part one of an essay published in four parts this week. Click here for part
Subject-Verb-Object: Writing with and about Multiple Sclerosis
Gillian Shirreffs reflects on using writing to manage chronic pain – and to renegotiate the objectifying medical gaze.[1] As an erstwhile student of English Language and a former Secondary School English teacher, the relationship