Daniel Sluman is a poet and disability rights activist. Born in Gloucestershire, he studied at the University of Gloucestershire and now lives in London. He co-edited the first major UK disability poetry anthology, Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (2017) with Sandra Alland and Khairani Barokka. He has previously published two full collections of poetry, Absence has a weight of its own (2012) and the terrible (2015), both published by Nine Arches Press. His work explores disability through a mainly confessionalist mode. He has previously held editing roles at Iota and Dead Ink, and he has studied towards a PHD in disability poetics, funded by an AHRC award. His poetry has appeared widely in UK poetry journals. His third poetry collection, single window, was published in 2021 by Nine Arches Press.
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