We present three poems written from personal experience of living with primary progressive non-fluent aphasia (primary progressive apraxia of speech). The poems provide a window on this illness 'from the inside', and vividly illustrate how intellect and inner life may survive strikingly intact, even after speech is lost.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pn-2022-003651DOI Listing

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