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Playing God Colquhoun, Glenn This selection is based on the poet's experiences as a doctor, a profession often described as - or accused of - 'playing God'. This accessible, inventive book opens with a section called Patients I Have Known. He takes each person's complaint and makes the symptoms into the form of the poem. A mini mental status examination, lists how the patient sees the world ??3. She told me that my pen was a dagger and that my watch was a fading rose in my hand. /4. She said that the world was already backwards and why make it worse?. One of the most satisfying sections is Spells, where Colquhoun takes flight and produces a series of incantations to address different medical moments. Winner of the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Poetry category. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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