Emergency Dream by Polly Atkin german Not many can cope with

Not many can cope with these two competing sounds jabbering in their ear

Its sequence of 80 prose poems creates a patchwork of narratives which share the challenges faced by women

boundaries blur

obsessive and wickedly witty

The various ‘yous’ of the texts are not subject-positions we want to fill

Emergency Dream by Polly Atkin german Not many can cope withPublished 16th March 2026. Emergency Dream grows out of entangled emergencies: social, political and personal, from climate crisis to the ongoing Covid 19 pandemic. The poems seek to show the inextricability of Climate Justice and Disability Justice, drawing on close observation of the natural world and the human world from the position of a disabled bodymind within it. There are two presiding modes of Emergency Dream: states of emergency and states