Thanks very much much for this, and sorry to hear you have Covid. Hope you’re over it soon. Highly impressed you can compile this - I’ve only got hayfever and can’t remember what I’m reading!
Will however mention a couple of poetry collections that tackle ND- kate Fox, The oscillations; and Jen Hadfield, The Stone Age.
And also wondering if poetry is almost by definition neuroqueer?
Great to have some poetry recommendations Helen, thanks. I'll check them out... Ooh, that's interesting what you say about poetry being neuroqueer. I'll have to think a bit more about that, but it makes sense too. Like how poetry is always pushing at the edges of itself? Kind of the opposite of being conventional? (But maybe that's not what you meant!)
Yes, both, and more- something about its use of language to communicate, convey emotion or information. More embodied, more attuned to sound and rhythm? Tho this can of course also be true of prose (thinking of how you, and other novelists I like, write fiction- and non-fiction) - thinking out loud here, but it’s something I want to work on / play with).
Also thinking about poetry books I’ve read precisely because they had ND authors / content, where that’s not what struck me most about them (or they had v different experience and articulation of it from mine, so I didn’t get resonance / confirmation/ validation from them I was maybe seeking).
And conversely, finding other collections to be particularly, engagingly, neuroqueer, when they weren’t marketed in that way at all. Made me think the act of writing poetry is neuroqueer?
That makes sense. I heard some people now think Emily Dickinson was autistic. Maybe poetry allowed her to express parts of herself that otherwise would have stayed hidden in that culture? Hope you might write more about these ideas of yours some time. I'd like to read it if you do.
Thanks very much much for this, and sorry to hear you have Covid. Hope you’re over it soon. Highly impressed you can compile this - I’ve only got hayfever and can’t remember what I’m reading!
Will however mention a couple of poetry collections that tackle ND- kate Fox, The oscillations; and Jen Hadfield, The Stone Age.
And also wondering if poetry is almost by definition neuroqueer?
Great to have some poetry recommendations Helen, thanks. I'll check them out... Ooh, that's interesting what you say about poetry being neuroqueer. I'll have to think a bit more about that, but it makes sense too. Like how poetry is always pushing at the edges of itself? Kind of the opposite of being conventional? (But maybe that's not what you meant!)
Yes, both, and more- something about its use of language to communicate, convey emotion or information. More embodied, more attuned to sound and rhythm? Tho this can of course also be true of prose (thinking of how you, and other novelists I like, write fiction- and non-fiction) - thinking out loud here, but it’s something I want to work on / play with).
Also thinking about poetry books I’ve read precisely because they had ND authors / content, where that’s not what struck me most about them (or they had v different experience and articulation of it from mine, so I didn’t get resonance / confirmation/ validation from them I was maybe seeking).
And conversely, finding other collections to be particularly, engagingly, neuroqueer, when they weren’t marketed in that way at all. Made me think the act of writing poetry is neuroqueer?
That makes sense. I heard some people now think Emily Dickinson was autistic. Maybe poetry allowed her to express parts of herself that otherwise would have stayed hidden in that culture? Hope you might write more about these ideas of yours some time. I'd like to read it if you do.