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.

Karl Knights is a freelance journalist. His poetry and prose has appeared in the Guardian, The Dark Horse and elsewhere. He is a fellow of Zoeglossia, the first writing fellowship solely for disabled writers. He tweets @inadarkwood and lives in Suffolk. Kin is his debut pamphlet.