On Hysteria by Nancy Kuhl Deborah Landau or the long cataclysm of

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the poet is concerned with how mythology - specifically the story of Demeter and Persephone - explains the seasons

the John Bray Award for Poetry

His poem 'the posh mums are dancing in the square' – included in Love Minus Love – won first prize in the Poetry Society's 2018 National Poetry Competition

On Hysteria by Nancy Kuhl Deborah Landau or the long cataclysm ofOn Hysteria, Nancy Kuhls fourth collection of poems, is a lyric engagement of voice, memory, longing, and the fraught ways we speak ourselves. In conversation and sometimes conflict with Sigmund Freuds foundational text of psychoanalysis Studies on Hysteria (1895), Kuhl reframes the discourse surrounding cases of so called hysterical girls and women, expanding and shifting given narratives. With intensity and emotion, On Hysteria examines how ideas