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One an amputee with chronic pain, the other suffering from Crohn's Disease and Fibromyalgia, Daniel Sluman and his wife Emily found the year of 2016 almost untenable. Unable to saf ely navigate the stairs to bed, they spent 24 hours a day together on a sofa, isolated from society except for a single window, where they watched the world moving around them. 'single window' is an incomparable, uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of poems in the form of a journal, which bear witness to the loneliness and fear experienced by disabled people living in Tory Britain. Through the use of a Sluman's precise hyper-confessional mode, the poetry and photography contained within this book documents the realities of the disabled lives and reveals a glimpse into a world that most people will otherwise never see. Show more