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Tag: Mental Health

Two poems by Louise Mather

15th November 202215th November 2022  Louise Mather

In Louise Mather’s short yet sublime poetry, the body is in turns a miracle immaculately conceived and mirrored before its speaker and an open wound, bloody for all to see.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Louise Mather, menstruation, Mental Health, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Poetry

Maz Hedgehog’s Let Me Count The Ways at Hope Mill Theatre

22nd June 202122nd June 2021  Toni Roberts

Back for a second run, Maz Hedgehog’s play, Let Me Count the Ways, blends monologue with poetry in this one-woman show about mental health, blackness, queerness and beauty.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Faye Draper, Hope Mill Theatre, love, Maz Hedgehog, Mental Health, self-love, Theatre

The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression – an intellectual exploration of the personal at an arm’s length

21st June 202122nd June 2021  Jennifer Brough

Eva Meijer’s richly referenced musings illustrate the gaps in language when trying to distil the depressive experience.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Antoinette Fawcett, Book Review, Books in translation, depression, Eva Meijer, Language, Mental Health, Pushkin Press

‘On Toast Crumbs’ by Rachel Sills

29th April 202129th April 2021  Rachel Sills

A new mother feels her world contract down to the daily domestic rituals of cooking, cleaning and care-giving in Rachel Sills’ haunting flash fiction, ‘On Toast Crumbs’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: caregivers, children, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Mental Health, mental wellbeing, Motherhood, mothers

‘Missing the Train’ & other poems by Susan Wilson

13th January 202115th January 2021  Susan Wilson

Susan Wilson’s poems quietly and sensitively explore the range of feelings – numbness, pain and longing – experienced after losing a loved one, enacting within their poetic structures the motions and process of grief.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Burley Fisher, grief, Mental Health, Poetry, Snakeskin, Spineless Authors, Susan Wilson

Body Politic’s Father Figurine at Stratford Circus Arts Centre

17th June 201917th June 2019  Shirley Ahura

Body Politic’s latest production, Father Figurine, unites hip hop dance theatre and spoken word to powerful effect when exploring the fractured relationship between a father and his son. Our arts contributor, Shirley Ahura, writes an extended review of this vital, poignant piece.

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Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Body Politic, Dance, Derek Mok, Emma-Jane Morbey, Father Figurine, Hip Hop, Hip Hop Dance Theatre, Isaac Ouro-Gnao, Josh Tomalin, Lee Griffiths, Mental Health, Mental health Awareness, Spoken Word, Stephen Brown, Stratford Circus, Toxic Masculinity, Tyrone Isaac-Stuart

Brands: Stop Using Suicide to Sell Your Products

21st March 201921st March 2019  Helen Long

After Burberry’s recent fashion “faux pas” with its fall/winter 2019 collection, Helen Long considers how brands need to be more responsible when it comes to the depiction of violence and suicide.

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Posted in Arts, Fashion, Film and Media, OpinionTagged: 13 Reasons Why, Burberry, Fashion, Mental Health, netflix
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