Hi everyone. As many of you know, I'm living the dream and doing a PhD about literary representations of chronic heart disease. I have recorded a presentation about a little bit of my recent research, looking at the fictional cardiac devices of Peter Bunzl's children's novel Cogheart, and how these relate to actual lived experience/real-life devices. The conference my presentation is part of would have been live in Glasgow with very limited audience numbers, but (like everything else) is now obviously happening online. The great thing about this is that it makes the whole thing so much more accessible! There's no upper limit on tickets and it's entirely FREE to attend. You just need to register with your email address here - phpiglasgow.wixsite.com/web... - and you will soon be emailed links to all the conference presentations and events. You can watch as many or as few of the presentations as you like. They'll all be viewable via YouTube for a week or two so you can watch at your leisure. I'm also sharing some (heart-related) creative writing at the evening event. The film screening at the end of the conference will feature a performance piece by a heart transplant recipient and her partner, about the transplant experience. Lots you guys might be interested in.
If you do watch my presentation then please let me know what you thought of it!
And one final thing - I'm still looking for people with cardiac devices of any sort to try their hand at writing a haiku about it over on my blog - go to heartytales.co.uk and look for the post called 'A haiku or two: cardiac devices'. I'll be finalising the zine next weekend so it's your last chance if you want to contribute! I'd love to have as wide a representation of views/experience as possible.
And I think that's about it. Hope you are all doing well!
What did you enjoy about cardiac rehab and what did you think was missing?
A response would be nice!
Heart condition in my twenties
