Slant Postscripts

literary & historical stories

Slant Postscripts

literary & historical stories

tell all the truth but tell it slant - emily dickinson

Personal
The Toll of Middle Healthcare

March 20, 2021

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’

October 2, 2020

Your hatred is exhausting
Parodying logic and sense
A comedically tragic
Shakespearean entitlement…

Essay
Memoir & Mental Illness: Madness in ‘The Green Bell’

July 14, 2020

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

July 14, 2020

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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