1st Edition
Communicating Pain Exploring Suffering through Language, Literature and Creative Writing
Acknowledgments
1. The shirt of Nessos: an essay on the experience of writing about pain
2. Going nursing: an autobiographical prelude
3. At the end of the mind, the body: a memoir, 2003-2004
4. But at the end of the body, the mind: a memoir, 2004-2009
5.The vendor of happiness: an interview with French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1802-1876)
6.The consolator: an introduction to English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
7. Observatory: a narrative poem set in Harriet Martineau's sick-room
8. An imago: a contemplation of Polish poet and intellectual, Aleksander Wat (1900 – 1967)
9. How does it hurt? An epilogue
10. White train: a narrative poem
Appendix of images
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Stephanie de Montalk worked as a nurse and documentary film maker before becoming a writer in 1996. She is the author of four collections of poems, a literary novel, a memoir-biography and the award-winning memoir-study of pain: How Does It Hurt?; adapted from her PhD thesis in Creative Writing. Since an accident in 2003, she has been constrained by pain.
