single window

by Daniel Sluman

Daniel Sluman's third collection, single window is a hybrid memoir of poetry and images.

One an amputee with chronic pain, the other suffering from Crohn's Disease and Fibromyalgia, Daniel Sluman and his wife Emily found the year of 2016 almost untenable. Unable to safely navigate the stairs to bed, they spent 24 hours a day together on their sofa, isolated from society except for a single window, where they watched the world moving around them.

single window is an incomparable, uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of poems in the form of a journal, which bear witness to the loneliness and fear experienced by disabled people living in Tory Britain. Through a precise, hyper-confessional fusion of poetry and photography, this book details the realities of disabled lives, exploring intimacy and unconditional love as well as isolation and confinement, and documenting a world that many people otherwise never see.

110 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 3, 2021

About the author

Daniel Sluman is a 34 year old writer and editor with a BA and MA in Creative Writing from University of Gloucestershire. His work explores disability through a mainly confessionalist mode, and his debut collection 'Absence has a weight of its own' was published by Nine Arches Press in 2012. In 2015 his second collection 'the terrible' was also published by Nine Arches Press and he won AHRC funding for a PHD in Disability Poetics at Birmingham City University. He co-edited the poetry anthology 'Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back' with Khairani Barokka and Sandra Alland in 2017. His third collection of poetry, 'single window' was published in September 2021 through Nine Arches Press.