Matthew Francis is Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. He has published six poetry collections with Faber & Faber, most recently Wing (2020). He is also the author of two novels, WHOM (Bloomsbury, 1989) and The Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press, 2014), and a collection of short stories, Singing a Man to Death (Cinnamon Press, 2012). He has edited the poems of W.S. Graham for Faber and published a study of Graham, Where the People Are (Salt Publishing, 2005).

• Part 1AutobiographicalChapter 1Land Without Feelings: A Depersonalization MemoirPart 2PsychologicalChapter 2Like Looking in Fairyland: The History and Pathology of DepersonalizationChapter 3The Sound a Noise Makes when it Ceases: The Literature of DepersonalizationChapter 4Making the Stone Stony: Depersonalization in Literary TheoryPart 3PracticalChapter 5A Moonlit Interval: Showing and Telling in FictionChapter 6The Odour of a Rose: Showing and Telling in PoetryChapter 7Crossing the Threshold: Quests, Epiphanies, Liminality

Matthew Francis is Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. He has published six poetry collections with Faber & Faber, most recently Wing (2020). He is also the author of two novels, WHOM (Bloomsbury, 1989) and The Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press, 2014), and a collection of short stories, Singing a Man to Death (Cinnamon Press, 2012). He has edited the poems of W.S. Graham for Faber and published a study of Graham, Where the People Are (Salt Publishing, 2005).

• Part 1AutobiographicalChapter 1Land Without Feelings: A Depersonalization MemoirPart 2PsychologicalChapter 2Like Looking in Fairyland: The History and Pathology of DepersonalizationChapter 3The Sound a Noise Makes when it Ceases: The Literature of DepersonalizationChapter 4Making the Stone Stony: Depersonalization in Literary TheoryPart 3PracticalChapter 5A Moonlit Interval: Showing and Telling in FictionChapter 6The Odour of a Rose: Showing and Telling in PoetryChapter 7Crossing the Threshold: Quests, Epiphanies, Liminality

Matthew Francis is Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. He has published six poetry collections with Faber & Faber, most recently Wing (2020). He is also the author of two novels, WHOM (Bloomsbury, 1989) and The Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press, 2014), and a collection of short stories, Singing a Man to Death (Cinnamon Press, 2012). He has edited the poems of W.S. Graham for Faber and published a study of Graham, Where the People Are (Salt Publishing, 2005).

• Part 1AutobiographicalChapter 1Land Without Feelings: A Depersonalization MemoirPart 2PsychologicalChapter 2Like Looking in Fairyland: The History and Pathology of DepersonalizationChapter 3The Sound a Noise Makes when it Ceases: The Literature of DepersonalizationChapter 4Making the Stone Stony: Depersonalization in Literary TheoryPart 3PracticalChapter 5A Moonlit Interval: Showing and Telling in FictionChapter 6The Odour of a Rose: Showing and Telling in PoetryChapter 7Crossing the Threshold: Quests, Epiphanies, Liminality