The Things A Body Knows: An interview with award winning poet Andy Jackson

28/11/2023 29 min Temporada 5 Episodio 1
The Things A Body Knows: An interview with award winning poet Andy Jackson

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Andy Jackson is a poet and creative writing teacher who was awarded RMIT’s Future of Health Fellowship. Andy’s book “Human Looking” – a poetry collection that gives voice to a range of experiences of people with disability – won the 2022 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. In our interview we explore ideas of health, the challenging and problematic pursuit of “normal” in the health care context, the nature of fears that possibly drive the ableist instinct, and the place that creatives have in designing a more inclusive future. Support the show