The Hard Word Box

By Sarah Hesketh

In 2013 the poet Sarah Hesketh spent 20 weeks visiting a residential care home for people with dementia. The result is The Hard Word Box, a book of poems and verbatim interviews that takes the reader on a surprising and enriching journey through memory and imagination.

The agility of Hesketh's poetic voice channels moments of tenderness, suffering and humour, revealing dementia as a negotiation with language and silence. The Hard Word Box is an inventive and compassionate meditation on the things that will be lost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908058226
• ISBN13: 9781908058225
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"