Wordgathering

A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature
 

Volume 12     Issue 3     September 2018

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Essays in this Issue

Essays in the September 2018 issue of Wordgathering have a decidedly Irish flavor. Des Kenny and John Lee Clark each look back at the legacy of an Irish writer with disabilities. In Kenny's case, the writer is Christy Brown, widely known through the portrayal of his life in the movie My Left Foot; in Clark's it is the the Deafblind poet Charles Joseph Kickham. Adding a slightly broader brush to these essays Sarah Fitzgerald's "The Need for a Collective" describes the importance of the Independent Living Movement in Ireland.

The three remaining pieces in this section include Saloua Ali Ben Zahra’s translation of poetry by Tunisian poet Moncef Ghachem into English, Jessica Penner’s account of living with Ollier's disease and Dorothy Ellen Palmer defense of the suburbs as welcome living spaces for disabled people.

• John Lee Clark, Charles Joseph Kickham's Poetics of Patriotism
• Sarah Fitzgerald, The Need for A Collective
• Des Kenny, Christy Brown: the Writer, the Poet and the Man
• Dorothy Ellen Palmer, Now Let Us Praise Accessible Suburbs
• Jessica Penner, Waiting
• Saloua Ali Ben Zahra, Translating "The Ghoul"

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