On Hysteria by Nancy Kuhl Deborah Landau and poems about the history

and poems about the history of how humans have imagined these amazing beasts

and a habit of always somehow looking in the opposite direction from everybody else

and possessing of a good ear

His poem 'the posh mums are dancing in the square' – included in Love Minus Love – won first prize in the Poetry Society's 2018 National Poetry Competition

or the long cataclysm of climate emergency

On Hysteria by Nancy Kuhl Deborah Landau and poems about the historyOn Hysteria, Nancy Kuhls fourth collection of poems, is a lyric engagement of voice, memory, longing, and the fraught ways we speak ourselves. In conversation and sometimes conflict with Sigmund Freuds foundational text of psychoanalysis Studies on Hysteria (1895), Kuhl reframes the discourse surrounding cases of so called hysterical girls and women, expanding and shifting given narratives. With intensity and emotion, On Hysteria examines how ideas