The Illumination: From Mirror to Bridge
Favour Rubyson Kharnaior uses poetry to reflect on the relationship between medicine and spirituality and considers how spiritual approaches to healing can work in harmony with conventional medicine.
Metaphor Map for Psychiatric Experiences
Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the ‘Metaphor Map’- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.
The Case of Martial Metaphor: Art and Antimicrobial Resistance
Meenakshi Srihari offers a critical examination of how art addressing antimicrobial resistance draws on familiar war and superhero metaphors, and shapes how we imagine our entanglement with microbes.
From Pandemic Stress to Nature Connection
A quiet practice of attention, belonging, and rest in urban parks from Yewande Okuleye.
Migraines: Nursing My Pain through Poetry
Catalina Florescu illustrates and explores the pain of her migraines in poetic form.
The Queer Pleasures and Pains of Autotheory
Harriet Mossop examines pleasure and pain as potential entryways into queer auto-theory in this reflection on ‘Locating the “I”: autoethnography as queer methodology’, a workshop led by João Florêncio and Edyta Just at the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School.
Poetry for Self-Preservation: “Live, I Must” and “No, Not Really, No”
Dr Zhaohui Su shares her poetic approach to engage more deeply with the complexities of medicine and aims to foster a greater sense of empathy and awareness in healthcare.
Poetry as Chronic Illness Research: ‘Another Attempt’
Jane Hartshorn’s poetry experiments within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness, reflecting rather than controlling the experience.
Invisible Barriers for Women: Mental Health and Neurodivergence
Iris A. Croft uses poetry to untangle the relationship between neurodivergence, being articulate, and receiving care.
Practice Research and Chronic Illness: ‘Fatigue Questionnaires’
Alec Finlay explores medical fatigue questionnaires through ‘subversion by means of soft poetics’.