“Important poetry that refuses to make you comfortable, and instead, implores you to pay attention.”
Dean Rhetoric
Pre-Orders now available!
Rebel Blood Cells is a poetry pamphlet that explores Jamie Woods’ experience of acute leukaemia, the illness, the chemotherapy, and the PTSD that followed.
Raw and honest, the poems mix pop culture obsessions with medical side-effects, and find moments of humour, regret, sadness and relief in the most difficult time of Jamie’s life.
All publisher and author proceeds from sales of this publication are being donated to the charity Leukaemia Care UK, where Jamie is Poet in Residence.
This debut pamphlet contains poems that have featured in publications including Ink Sweat & Tears, Marble Broadsheet, The Wombwell Rainbow, and the Hippocrates Prize shortlisted Ring The Bell.
Pre-orders include a signed paperback, badges and a bookmark.
The book and ebook will be available from Amazon and orderable from other bookshops from June 5th 2023
“Jamie Woods’ Rebel Blood Cells explores a cancer diagnosis with sensitivity and humour. Opening up the spaces of hospitals and wards, Woods juxtaposes cancer treatment and Star Wars, Blue Peter and blood banks. Here’s a poet who can make you laugh and cry.”
— ZOË BRIGLEY author of Hand & Skull, editor of Poetry Wales
“Jamie applies a deftness of form and tone to crack through a bleak shell, illuminating catching moments and tenderly reaching for what it means to be alive.”
— JAMIE HALE author of Shield
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