Karl Knights' Kin meet inside hospitals and grow up in waiting rooms and hospital cafeterias where 'nobody stares'. These are poems of survival in the face of disability and years of austerity; they are memorials to those who did not make it, powerful and sharply observed.
"Knights uses very direct, pared down language to describe disability and what it means to be disabled in an abled-bodied world and the unthinking lack of compassion shown by some. He doesn't hold back when discussing the impact of the inhumane benefits system which takes an energy and persistence to negotiate that isn't always available to disabled people already hit with extra expenses and effor
