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Notes from the Sick Room: Illness in Music, Literature and Art

  • by: Steve Finbow

Notes from the Sick Room is an investigation into the connections between physical illness and creativity. Although there are a number of books investigating mental illness and creativity, there are very few that concentrate on physical illness – cancer, HIV, tuberculosis and disabilities caused by accidents. Incapacity provides time for contemplation and creativity, yet pain and discomfort detract from inspiration. Serious illness confronts the individual with the reality of death; the complacency of being is jolted by the shock of nonbeing. Does one record these incidences or ignore ‘art’ in order to survive?

Narrated by Gavin Osborn
Length 12 hrs and 39 mins

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  • Steve Finbow

    Steve Finbow‘s fiction includes Balzac of the Badlands (Future Fiction London, 2009), Tougher Than Anything in the Animal Kingdom (Grievous Jones Press, 2011), Nothing Matters (Snubnose Press, 2012). His biography of Allen Ginsberg in Reaktion’s Critical Lives series was published in 2011. His other works include Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia (Zero Books, 2014) and Down Among the Dead (Number Thirteen Press, 2014). He was recently writer-in-residence at The Function Room.

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Duration: 12 hrs and 39 mins
Narrated by: Gavin Osborn

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Medical Humanities

“… a bricolage of ideas that coheres as a sort of image, a story of the necessity of ill health in our lives.”

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