Pain Songs by Daniel Sluman Rod Mengham insubstantial "that stretches over past

insubstantial "that stretches over past pain and future uncertainties

the past has not finished with us

The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina questo amore

Responding to the imaginative range of Riordan's preoccupations

are revealed as the provisional drafts they are

Pain Songs by Daniel Sluman Rod Mengham insubstantial "that stretches over pastPublished 14th May 2026 Pain Songs, Daniel Slumans fourth poetry collection, is written through the writers 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.