Nine Arches Press
Adventures in poetry
Pain Songs
Daniel Sluman
ISBN: 9781916760387
eISBN: 9781916760394
Price: £11.99
Publication date: 14th May 2026
Format: Paperback / eBook
Territories: World
Extent: 72pp
DCF: Poetry Collections
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.
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Daniel Sluman’s third collection, single window is a hybrid memoir of poetry and images. One an amputee with chronic pain, the other suffering from Crohn's Disease and Fibromyalgia, Daniel Sluman and his wife Emily found the year of 2016 almost untenable. Unable to safely navigate the stairs to bed, they spent 24 hours a day together on their sofa, isolated from society except for a single window, where they watched the world moving around them.
The Nine Arches Press blog features poems from many of our poets, as well as interviews and articles.
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