National Poetry Month : Susie Campbell,

 

DEFASURE-DSM-5 Impulsivi (text, fragment of hospital gown, gold thread)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susie Campbell is working on a practice-based poetry PhD at Oxford Brookes University, focusing on Gertrude Stein and experimental spatial forms in poetry. Her text and textile-based work has appeared in UK and international journals as well as in visual poetry anthologies and exhibitions. Her recent book publications include Tenter (Guillemot Press, 2020) and Enclosures (Osmosis Press, 2021, now sold out). Her new book The Sleeping Place is forthcoming from Guillemot Press in 2022. She is currently working on DEFASURES, a series of visual poems which deface, erase and suture passages of diagnostic handbook DSM-5. She has chosen only to work with those sections of which she has personal experience so that her poetic response is an alternative reading of the way this manual describes what have been her own more complex experiences of health and recovery. She can be found at https://susiecampbellwrites.wordpress.com and on social media.