Pain Songs

Lyrical poems about chronic pain, disability and early fatherhood from TS Eliot listed author

Pain Songs, Daniel Sluman’s fourth poetry collection, is written through the writer’s experience of chronic pain, examining the ways the body and the world interact and intersect. Reflecting on love, family and relationships, the poems explore intimacy, fertility, pregnancy, and what the repercussions are of living inside a body that feels like ‘an alarm that rings and rings’.

Pain Songs, Daniel Sluman’s fourth poetry collection, is written through the writer’s experience of chronic pain, examining the ways the body and the world interact and intersect. Reflecting on love, family and relationships, the poems explore intimacy, fertility, pregnancy, and what the repercussions are of living inside a body that feels like ‘an alarm that rings and rings’.