Over the last few years several people have told me they've put #SomeOfUsJustFall on reading lists and syllabi but in classic brain fog way I can't remember the details. If you're teaching SOUJF - in any context - or know someone who is, could you let me know? Thank you! #BookSky #MedicalHumanities

For me as someone currently not disabled or ill (but close to loved ones who are), I’ve learned SO much nuance from Polly’s writing, centrally #SomeOfUsJustFall. Reading disabled/chronic writers helps transform what is visible/legible to me in others’ bodily & political experiences — & in my own.

More on this in light of Winn's rebuttal. 1. There is a lot of pressure on memoirists to simplify narratives. 2. As I write about in #SomeOfUsJustFall, diagnosis is an ongoing process, especially with complex chronic conditions. Theories are posed; the body concurs, or doesn't. #TheChronicLife

hard back of some of us just fall: on nature and not getting better balanced upright on rock in front of sunlit, summery lake with green fell and trees behind it

There's a sequel I probably won't tell more of for another 5 years or so, but the book did get bought in the end due to my wonderful agent @portyliterary.bsky.social to Jo Dingley, who was a brilliant editor at Sceptre, and just got the book. It was published in 2023 as #SomeOfUsJustFall.

Fire and Hemlock became so essential to my little mind that 12 years later I wrote about it in my undergraduate thesis exploring traditional faery tales where the woman saves herself, focused on Tam Lin and The White Road/Mr Fox. Fire and Hemlock appears in my book #SomeOfUsJustFall too.

(This is a nice counterbalance to all the times I've sat behind the bookshop counter, watched someone pick up #SomeOfUsJustFall and another book, then buy the other book 😆) #BooksellerWriters #TheWritingLife #BookshopLife

Academic Johannes Riquet - a white man with dark hair, wearing a wet navy waterproof coat - standing in the bookshop and holding the course reader for his field course. It has an archaic map of the lakes on the front, and text: literary geography in practice - the english lake district - reader, primary texts - complied by Johannes Riquet, 2024.

Yesterday I had the surreal experience of an academic from Finland coming into the shop to say hi because he's teaching my poetry to a group of students on a literary geographies field trip here. Some of the students then came in & left with signed copies of #MuchWithBody and #SomeOfUsJustFall.

Grey scale patterned tile with Centre for Ethics and Health Humanities at southern miss at top, a photo of Polly and talk title - promoting chronicity: on illness narratives, ongoingness and unrecovery', Polly Atkin, writer and bookseller in centre. Underneath against a black background, white text: this event is made possible through generous support from the fairchild lecture series funds. At bottom, date: Monday, march 24 @ 4pm on zoom.

10th March is my online writing group through lovely @openbookreading.bsky.social which has renewed funding, yay!

Then March 24th I've a public online event with the University of Southern Mississippi - "Promoting Chronicity': on illness narratives, ongoingness and unrecovery'. #SomeOfUsJustFall

I loved my time as a write in residence @gladlib.bsky.social in February 2018, where I had a revelation about what I was doing and thinking about what would become #SomeOfUsJustFall as well as the poetry I intended to focus on there. Apply, apply apply! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/news/volume/...