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Fiona Larkin's Vital Capacity explores the centrality of breath, and the emotional devastation caused when it is disrupted by disease. At its core it examines the myths and stigmas surrounding tuberculosis, the shame attached to acknowledging a disease of poverty, the political question of who can access medical treatment, and more broadly the functioning of lungs and the multiple interpretations of breath. A lyrical, disquieting, and deeply moving collection, Vital Capacity is not just a collection of poems it is a way of looking at the world through the fragile filter of the lung.

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Fiona Larkin's Vital Capacity explores the centrality of breath, and the emotional devastation caused when it is disrupted by disease. At its core it examines the myths and stigmas surrounding tuberculosis, the shame attached to acknowledging a disease of poverty, the political question of who can access medical treatment, and more broadly the functioning of lungs and the multiple interpretations of breath. A lyrical, disquieting, and deeply moving collection, Vital Capacity is not just a collection of poems it is a way of looking at the world through the fragile filter of the lung.
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Autorenporträt
Fiona Larkin's debut pamphlet, A Dovetail of Breath, is available from Rack PressVital Capacity will be published by Broken Sleep Books in February 2022.Her poems have been Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes 2019 , shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and appear in journals and anthologies. Work is forthcoming in The London Magazine, Acumen, the Hippocrates anthology Storm Brain and the Spotlight Anthology from the Poets Directory.With Nic Stringer and Michelle Penn, Fiona organises Corrupted Poetry events. Their recent project, I Know That is Poetry, is a series of audio shots where poets consider what makes a poem, and read a poem or excerpt by another poet which, for them, exemplifies it. Releasing weekly from February 2021, do tune in to hear guests including Kathryn Maris, Aaron Kent, Chris McCabe, Jennifer Militello, Rishi Dastidar and Tamar Yoseloff. A Corrupted Anthology is planned for 2022.