{"id":149,"date":"2017-03-23T21:51:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:31:46","slug":"poetry-all-over-the-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/poetry-all-over-the-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"There is poetry all over the walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>from Ward 64, by <\/strong><strong>Sarah Broom.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>there is poetry all over the walls<br \/>\nof oncology<\/p>\n<p>and I want to get out<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Extract from Ward 64. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk\/poetry\/poems\/ward-64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the whole poem<\/a> (Scottish Poetry Library website)<\/p>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>Sarah Broom was a New Zealand poet who found she had lung cancer when pregnant with her third child in 2008. She died in 2013.\u00a0 Her poem Ward 64 (from Tigers at Awhitu, Oxford Poets \/ Carcanet Press Ltd, 2010) is featured in Tools of the Trade, a short book of poems given to all new doctors graduating in Scotland.<\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This poem appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk\/about\/projects-partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tools of the Trade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>About <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahbroom.co.nz\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Broom<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Image shows poetry on the walls at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angel_Island_(California)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angel Island<\/a>, San Francisco. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rogerwagner\/4537808277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger Wagner on Flickr<\/a> (Creative Commons). Angel Island was a receiving base for immigrants from Asia, mostly Chinese, between 1910 and 1940. Some stayed years. Poetry carved in the walls was repeatedly covered up and re-exposed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>More like this<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Ward 64, by Sarah Broom. there is poetry all over the walls of oncology and I want to get out Extract from Ward 64. Read the whole poem (Scottish Poetry Library website) Commentary Sarah Broom was a New Zealand poet who found she had lung cancer when pregnant with her third child in 2008. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/poetry-all-over-the-walls\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4,14],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oncology","tag-patient-experience","tag-poetry"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}