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How Poetry Helps Me Face an Invisible Illness

By Chloe Hoy-Bianchi
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May 10, 2019
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Writing poetry has helped me face all the fear and uncertainty that surrounds a lifelong diagnosis.

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Screengrab from ‘I don’t want to be in my body no more: a visual poem’