Writing Chronic Illness Just in Time

Recorded October 26th, 2023. A lecture by Professor Kimberly
Campanello (University of Leeds) as part of the Medical and Health
Humanities Seminar Series. Professor Kimberly Campanello
(University of Leeds) will read from recent work on her experience
of chronic illness and disability and discuss her writing process
and approach with reference to key touchstones, including Dante's
acedia, Proust's corked wall and ill objects, and Alison Kafer's
'crip time'. Kimberly Campanello is best known for MOTHERBABYHOME,
a 796-page visual poetry-object and reader’s edition book
(zimZalla, 2019), and sorry that you were not moved (2022), an
interactive digital poetry publication produced in collaboration
with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media. She is an inaugural
Markievicz Award winner from Ireland's Department of Culture,
Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Arts Council, and she
represented the UK in Munich at Klang Farben Text: Visual Poetry
for the 21st Century, a festival organised by the British Council,
the National Poetry Library, and Lyrik Kabinett. New poems have
appeared in Granta, Poetry Review, Cambridge Literary Review, The
White Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. New prose features in
Tolka and in Somesuch Stories. She was diagnosed with Young Onset
Parkinson's in 2021 (age 43) and was awarded a Developing Your
Creative Practice Grant by Arts Council England to support her
writing of chronic illness and disability. She is Professor of
Poetry at the University of Leeds. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/