The battle between a creative mind and an ill body/ Creativity knows no boundaries. -Corina Duyn
Hatched – a creative journey through ME published in 2006, is a distillation of eight years of diaries. Reducing more and more words to eventually come to the very essence of each part of life utterly changed due to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). ‘Her work is a wonderful blend of words and images, a reflection of daily life endured with the strain and struggle of illness but at the same time a tribute to the beauty of the everyday. The poems make us intensely aware of the limitations of her physicality, what the body can do, what she can ask of herself.’ – Katherine Collins.
Katie Lincoln created a documentary about the making of Hatched, see Flight Path (06.04min)
At the 20 year anniversary this book is being republished in digital format on ISSUU – Little Wings as Hatched re-hatched. With introduction by Katherine Collins, Creative Ireland Coordinator, Waterford City and County Council.
The Hatched poems were put on music by Luck Surus. See/hear: Youtube or Spotify.
Hatched- a Creative Journey Through M.E. by Corina Duyn. ISBN 978-0-9563589-0-5; 192 pages. Full colour, 15×15 cm. Accompanied by Flightpath documentary. Supported by Waterford County Council Arts Office & Arts Council of Ireland. Written and illustrated by Corina Duyn; Published by Little Wings 2006. Hatched- re-hatched 2026 published in ISSUU- Little Wings. Supported by Ireland’s Creative Communities programme, Waterford City and County Council.
Endorsements for Hatched – a Creative Journey Through ME
- ‘Hatched is one of the most energetic, generous-hearted, sharp-minded and inspiring books of poems I’ve read for quite a while. No matter what page you open the book I find love of life, an appreciation of life, a vibrant sense of privilege and gratitude’. – Poet Brendan Kennelly
- ‘It is beautiful. Really beautiful. It gives me courage’. – Dianne Mawhood
- ‘Dropping an audio book in to Corina back in 1999 I was horrified to see the wheelchair abandoned at the bottom of a steep staircase – Like Rapunzel incarcerated in her ivory tower Corina was trapped – trapped in a body unsure how to function – trapped – trapped full stop.“Housebound but Homeless” – Librarian Evelyn Coady
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- ‘Corina Duyn is living proof of the adage that you can’t keep a good woman down. In the last eight years, she has gone from the depths of crippling pain and tiredness, where she was unable to even crack an egg, to publishing her first book of poetry and visual imagery’. – Deirdre O’Flynn – Painting through the pain. Feelgood- Irish Examiner 6-‘06
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