‘Welcome to Hospital Corners—an audio mosaic tracing the hidden history, personal memories, and fierce discipline of 1960s nurse training. Based on the poetry and prose of former nursing sister and educator Mary Bray, this series steps past the romanticised myths to explore what it truly felt like to become the hands that care. In this… Continue reading Podcast Episode: Metamorphosis and the Starched Apron. Companion to
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Podcast Episode: Introducing The Hospital Corners Series
Pip: There’s a site called Converging Lives that deals in sounds, silence, and imagery — and this week it’s asking what nursing actually is, beneath the myth of the angel and the weight of the institution. Mara: Sam’s been building towards this for a while. The episode centres on the launch of a new series… Continue reading Podcast Episode: Introducing The Hospital Corners Series
Podcast Episode: Poetry, Imagery And Voice
Pip: There is something quietly radical about the idea that swapping one verb can change the entire emotional weather of a poem — and that is exactly where Sam starts us off on Converging Lives. Sounds, Silence and Imagery. Mara: This episode moves through three territories: how word choice shapes a poem’s soul, how imagery… Continue reading Podcast Episode: Poetry, Imagery And Voice
Converging Lives. Sounds, Silence and Imagery 