Cling Film by Bethany Handley
Bethany Handley's debut pamphlet Cling Film explores existing as a young Disabled woman in a crossfire of ableism. She invites the reader to travel in her skin, exposing the barriers that disable people with unfiltered honesty and wit. A deep connection to nature is ever present in these poems. Swifts wheel across the sky, acorn shells crunch beneath tread, waves break against the shore and a wheelchair user leaves proud tyre tracks in the sand. Set in familiar Welsh places - from Cardiff's Heath Hospital to Mynydd Mawr in Eryri, these witty, perceptive poems challenge myths about disability in ways that are striking, astute and devastatingly exact. Bethany Handley is an award-winning writer, poet and disability activist from Monmouthshire, South Wales. She won Creative Future's Gold Prize for Creative Non-fiction 2023 and was named one of the ten most influential Disabled people working in politics, law and media in the Shaw Trust's Disability Power 100 2024.
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