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Recovery Community
Recovery Community | Conor MC Donnell
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In Recovery Community, physician-poet Conor Mc Donnell explores the complexities of trauma, illness and loss. Shot through with personal and professional experiences, Mc Donnell's poems recruit actors, addicts and artists to a Greek-chorus rallying call: drug users are serenaded by the medications that seek to trap them, Laura Palmer is released from TV to be replaced by her captive audience, Shelley Winters is raised from a succession of pre-dug Hollywood graves, and noir cinema retreats to the shadows under the glare of a 21st century lens. The poems in Recovery Community reinforce doubt and conflict as necessary tools to navigate existence, and Mc Donnell sketches a map of resilience with lines of caution that linger long after reading.
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My first Goodreads review ... “Recovery Community is a ferocious and urgent collection of poems of the harm of addiction on the self and others, helplessness, sickness, injustice, life, youth, love and the arbitrariness of death. What stays with me above all else after having read these poems is the emotion: anger, frustration, grief. The yawp sounded over the roofs of the world. Recovering Community is a timely collection.”

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Even if you can‘t go out into the community, you can bring the community to you #RecoveryCommunity wherever you buy books

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Hi everyone, it‘s been a while, being a physician has taken an increasing toll in recent months but at least I have this little ray of sunshine to show for 2021 so far! Out this weekend wherever u buy books #recoverycommunity

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Christmas 2020 🤗🕺😎

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Out next month with Mansfield Press
Available to pre-order on A#*z#n now
Not a fan of the corporate chokehold but international orders may be otherwise difficult...alternately contact me through www.conormcdonnell.ca and I‘ll try to get it to you in a more eco-indie-friendly stylee
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