What to feel, How to Feel: Lyric Essays on Neurodivergence and Neurofatherhood

by Shane Neilson

Overview

In What to feel, how to feel, Shane Neilson dazzles in the lyric essay form. Focusing on non-neurotypicality, Neilson investigates his supposed difference of self while also holding to account society’s construction of that difference, moving from his early childhood to adulthood and then back again in terms of a neurodivergent fathering of his own son. Covering subjects that have yet to receive attention in Canadian literature, including how the medical profession discriminates against its own, Neilson’s poetic accounts of stigma and self-discovery interleavened with literary history mark a first in our letters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781990293986
Publisher:	Palimpsest Press
Publication date:	06/15/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Shane Neilson (mad/autistic) is a poet and physician from New Brunswick who is currently practising medicine in Guelph, Ontario. His writing has won various awards, including the Hamilton Book Award for Poetry, the Walrus Poetry Prize, and the Gwen L. Martin Memorial Award for Nonfiction. He served as a judge for the International Hippocrates Poetry Prize this year (based out of London), and his first book in the UK, The Cost of Living, was just published with The Artel Press.