Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Strange Egg - A Symptoms Diary - cover

The Strange Egg - A Symptoms Diary

Kirstie Millar

Publisher: The Emma Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

'Doctor, I had a terrible dream.
In my dream I saw my own body, and I saw what you will do to it.'
A woman is faced, month after month, with the birth of a strange egg. Her doctor asks that she take notes on her symptoms, documenting black blood clots as big as pennies, winking stars in her eyes, and relentless pain. As the woman waits for aid from her doctor, she begins to have strange premonitions of what will be done to her body. The egg, meanwhile, is watchful and demanding. Impatient.
The Strange Egg is as gorgeous as it is horrifying. Highly original, it challenges long-held beliefs that people of marginalised genders are unreliable and irrational witnesses to our own bodies.
The Strange Egg is a luminous gothic prose poem that delves into the mythopoeic to express injustice at the hands of abusive medical systems.
Available since: 01/05/2023.
Print length: 36 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Open Window - cover

    The Open Window

    Edward Rowland Sill

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Open Window by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 27th, 2011.Edward Rowland Sill, American poet and educator, was born in Windsor, Connecticut. He was a modest and charming man, a graceful essayist, a sure critic. His contribution to American poetry is small but of fine quality. His best poems, such as "The Venus of Milo," "The Fool's Prayer" and "Opportunity," gave him a high place among the minor poets of America, which might have been higher but for his early death. (summary from Wikipedia)
    Show book
  • Fifty Shades of March - 50 of the best poems about the month of March - cover

    Fifty Shades of March - 50 of...

    William Wordsworth, John Clare,...

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The third month of our Gregorian calendar. Spring begins to delicately change the land.  Colour and light begin their inexorable march to bathe the landscape around us. Temperatures subtly begin to rise, nature welcomes warmth. 
  
50 poems from the pens of our remarkable poets including Yeats, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Housman, Lowell and a plethora of others come lines and verse on the wonder of the landscape, its fauna and wildlife that amplify our moods, feelings, thoughts and desires on this month of March. 
 
1 - Fifty Shades of March - An Introduction 
2 - March - An Ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
3 - To My Sister by Wiliam Wordsworth 
4 - March by A E Housman 
5 - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth 
6 - To Daffodils by Robert Herrick 
7 - A Shropshire Lad XXIX - The Lent Lilly by A E Housman 
8 - To a Daisy Found Blooming March 7th by John Hartley 
9 - Extract of Spring Day by Amy Lowell 
10 - The Year's at the Spring by Robert Browning 
11 - March Written by William Morris 
12 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth 
13 - Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
14 - Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield 
15 - In March by Archibald Lampman 
16 - An Extract of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
17 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran 
18 - Again Comes the Spring by Hafiz 
19 - Written in March by William Wordsworth 
20 - Sonnet XLIII. The Malvern Hills, March 12th 1835 by Henry Alford 
21 - Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell 
22 - Stella's Birthday, March 13th 1727 by Jonathan Swift 
23 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen 
24 - March by John Payne 
25 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
26 - A March Minstrel by Alfred Austin 
27 - A Little Madness in the Spring by Emily Dickinson 
28 - Spring by William Morris 
29 - To March by Emily Dickinson 
30 - Spring's Bedfellow by William Morris 
31 - Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale 
32 - Spring Showers by James Thomson 
33 - A March Snow by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
34 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman 
35 - Slow Spring by Katharine Tynan 
36 - To Spring by William Blake 
37 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 
38 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
39 - A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge 
40 - The Spring by Thomas Carew 
41 - March Evening by Amy Lowell 
42 - In the Green and Gallant Spring by Robert Louis Stevenson 
43 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy 
44 - Written In London on 19th March, 1796 by Matilda Betham 
45 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence 
46 - Spring Wind in London by Katherine Mansfield 
47 - The Message of the March Wind by William Morris 
48 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay 
49 - My Little March Girl by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
50 - These, I, Singing in Spring by Walt Whitman 
51 - The Shepherd's Calendar - March by John Clare
    Show book
  • Paul and Vincent - cover

    Paul and Vincent

    David P. Reiter

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Based on Gauguin’s reflections of his stormy relationship with Vincent at Arles, France, this audio production brings the personalities of the two artists alive. Based on the extracts from the book Letters We Never Sent by David P. Reiter and the source for the ABC PoeticA production.
    Show book
  • Ross (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

    Ross (NHB Modern Plays)

    Terence Rattigan

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Terence Rattigan's epic and probing drama about the man immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia.
Arrogant, flippant, withdrawn and with a talent for self-concealment, the mysterious Aircraftman Ross seems an odd recruit for the Royal Air Force. In fact the truth is even stranger than the man himself.
Behind the false name is an enigma, a man named Lawrence who started as a civilian in the Map Office in 1914 and went on to mastermind some of the most audacious military victories in the history of the British Army. These victories earned him an enduring and romantic nom de guerre: Lawrence of Arabia.
Rattigan's 1960 play reveals the unusual and deeply conflicted Englishman behind the heroic legend. This edition, with an Introduction by Dan Rebellato, was published alongside the revival at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2016, directed by Adrian Noble and starring Joseph Fiennes as Ross.
    Show book
  • American Dreams - cover

    American Dreams

    Velina Hasu Houston

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    After World War II, an African-American war vet brings home his Japanese bride. The family must learn to be tolerant of their new family member, while dealing with prejudice in the outside world.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Mary Bond Davis, Yvonne Farrow, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Peter A. Jacobs, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Don Reed, Charlie Robinson and Patricia Thompson.Directed by Peggy Shannon. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in January, 1991.
    Show book
  • Spooky Poetry - cover

    Spooky Poetry

    Rudyard Kipling

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Spooky Poetry. Or things that go bump in the night!  Poetry has a way of making even the most difficult of subjects or themes that bit easier to handle.  And so it is with spooks and ghouls, ghosts and goblins. In this collection of poems Shakespeare, Kipling Rossetti, Stevenson are just some of the fine minds that take us on an adventure into a World of tense laughter and just around the corner sacredness.  Our readers for this magical journey include Sandi Tosvig, Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe
    Show book