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Just out: Patient Dignity

A collaborative, poetic response to the Covid-19 pandemic
4th August 2021

    Patient Dignity (Scotland Street Press), a new collection of poems by WritersMosaic‘s Bashabi Fraser, is a transnational, collaborative response to the pandemic experience. The book is dedicated to the ‘staff working on the frontline, risking their lives to save patients at the National Health Service and in care homes.’ Fraser says she was struck and inspired to write Patient Dignity by the lines of villagers returning home at the beginning of lockdown restrictions in 2020. She was reminded of the lines of refugees during the 1948 Partition period of India’s history. The global experience of separation, a kind of partition, whether forced or voluntary, has marked millions of lives since the outbreak of the pandemic. Fraser’s evocative poems are complemented by fine paintings by Vibha Pankaj.

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    Ideas are like rabbits

    ‘Ideas are like rabbits, you get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you will have a dozen.’

    Soundsystem as pedagogy

    'You left recalibrated. Heartbeat altered. Shoulders lowered.'

    Bad Signal

    'All language use can be seen as extending a hand; words and their corresponding meanings are always about relationships'

    Minor Black Figures

    Making art without looking over your shoulder

    The Authenticator

    Painful truths hidden in the shadows of history

    Hedda

    An imperfect description of humanity

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