Thrilled and grateful to Poetry Daily that FROM D/diaries: Saturday morning, lying in bed, 9th February 2019 from The House of the Interpreter (Carcanet) is featured on the site as today’s poem.
You can read it here: https://poems.com/poem/from-d-diaries-saturday-morning-lying-in-bed-9th-february-2019/
At one point I intended to write a regular diary about my experience of single-sided-deafness due to childhood mumps, and learning British Sign Language (BSL) in later life. My commitment trailed off, but a couple of entries I thought interesting enough to work on and include in my second collection. The poem captures feelings about being between two worlds—hearing and deaf—and processing prejudice and trying to unpack what being direct means from a personal, deaf, and feminist perspective.
Lisa Kelly on “FROM D/diaries: Saturday morning, lying in bed, 9th February 2019“
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