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.