The Underlook

Helen Seymour

• Publisher: Smith|Doorstop Books
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781914914010
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Women in Poetry
• Index: Literature

The Underlook balances precariously between the real and the surreal. Informed by experiences of physical disability, surgery, and medical trauma, this collection articulates a life lived under the bed, at the bottom of a well, in the glances exchanged between doctors. The poems revel in the uncanny and in the power of ignored or repressed spaces, summoning us under to 'listen … crouch down … press [a] hand against the white gloss shuddering'.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Child Development Centre 1996
• Crack
• Beep
• Heaving
• Psychic
• [Rearranging the words of] Case Dismissed in Slaying of Deformed Baby
• Spinal Fusion
• You’re Just So Funny I Can’t Stop Laughing
• The Wasp in Room Ten
• 24 Hours in A&E
• My Time in the Hospital
• Subject: P.E., Form III, 2000
• Falling
• Fire Escape
• You’re Looking Well
• Where is Hugo?
• Subject: English, Form II, 1999 (Exercise Book)
• Adolescence
• Parallel Universe
• Silver Shell Girl
• [Rearranging the Words of] Parents Complain that Disabled TV Presenter is ‘Scaring Children’
• Mortuary
• After One Session of Therapy
• School Photographer
• Witness Protection
• Patient Care Documentation 2010
• Postman Pat on Oxycontin
• [Rearranging the Words of] The Ethicist’s Response to ‘Is It OK to Dump Him Because of His Medical Condition?’
• Lighter Fluid
• Well This Is Awkward
• What I Actually Want To Do
• Acknowledgements and Notes