Slant Postscripts
literary & historical stories
tell all the truth but tell it slant - emily dickinson
Personal
The Toll of Middle Healthcare
I’ve spent a lot of time in middle healthcare. It’s a term I use for folks who are sick but not sick enough. As a middling, the medical structure generally acknowledges the adverse impact…
Poem
‘A Love Letter; Written in Anger’
Your hatred is exhausting
Parodying logic and sense
A comedically tragic
Shakespearean entitlement…
Essay
Memoir & Mental Illness: Madness in ‘The Green Bell’
An extended exploration of the rendering of madness in Paula Keogh’s The Green Bell: A Memoir of Love…
Book Review
‘The Green Bell’ (2017) – Paula Keogh
The memoir of Australian writer Paula Keogh, striving to find herself as a young woman in the 1970s. During a time when mental illness is…
The land on which I reside and the land my ancestors arrived on was never ceded, it was and always will be Aboriginal land. I acknowledge the inherent racism of concepts such as literature and history, and the unjust structures of power at play in the telling of stories.
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