Pain Songs

Pain Songs, Daniel Sluman’s fourth poetry collection, is written through the writer’s experience of chronic pain, examining the ways the body and the world interact and intersect. Reflecting on love, family and relationships, the poems explore intimacy, fertility, pregnancy, and what the repercussions are of living inside a body that feels like ‘an alarm that rings and rings’.

Daniel Sluman is a poet and disability rights activist. He co-edited the first major UK Disability poetry anthology Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back and he has three previous poetry collections published by Nine Arches Press. His most recent book, single window, was released in 2021 and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.