Supinely Sublimely

Supinely Sublimely was published by Palewell Press in October 2016. In carefully crafted and tightly focused chronicles (called ‘textlings’) Marion Michell gives glimpses of a life bent out of shape by a debilitating and little understood disease and evokes the highs and lows of trying to maintain a creative practice as an artist/writer whose days are framed by M.E. and P.O.T.S.

Excerpt
"Amongst all the f-words, fatigue is the worst. M.E. is like a burglar who steals from you every minute of every day. Its booty is your energy, half a sackful of cognitive functions and whatever else it can find. Out goes your profession, your social life; your mobility, vision, memory; your ability to look after yourself without help; your idiosyncratic vitality - in short: the way you were in the world. Hardest though: your intelligence curls up in a ball and rolls out of reach, and you lie in wait for those rare instants when you can seize it by the scruff of its scrawny neck and pull it from under bed, for a wee while."

Review
“In the tradition of Fernando Pessoa and William Soutar, Marion Michell writes from her bed and takes us on journeys in language which leave us enriched. Concision may be forced on her, but it generates memorable distillation of the experience of illness, which will be familiar to anyone who has endured a significant health problem.” Tom Shakespeare

Links
Supinely Sublimely - Amazon UK

Supinely Sublimely - Amazon US

Supinely Sublimely - Palewell Press