Crohnic GBS Pharmacopoeia brings together the best

Pharmacopoeia brings together the best of Derek Jarman's writing on nature

a charming junkie struggling to stay clean

But other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day

Blessed by the gods with unparalleled beauty

Crohnic GBS Pharmacopoeia brings together the bestCrohnic is a brilliant and moving collection of poems that asks, what is the landscape of a medicated life? From their convalescence in a room that overlooks the North Saskatchewan River, author Jason Purcell thinks ecologically with medical records, prescriptions, and dosages, staying attuned to place and to what it might mean to live a life relying on something in this case, an interminable course of medication that hurts you in some ways to help