Growing up in a world that's always watching
Inspired by last month’s Youth Mental Health Day (18 September), I found myself reflecting on how impossible it feels for...
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Rex: My Story
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Karolyn: Cry Baby
There are days when I am sad There is me, and there is sadness We sit side by side, and...
Marie: My New Identity
First a bit of context. I am getting treatment for OCD after a long journey to accepting that I couldn’t...
Joe Willis: ‘What’s Up With You”- My Daily Internal Gameshow
Joe 1: “Hello and welcome to another episode of ‘What’s Up With You?’, our daily internal gameshow written, produced and...
Mary Bottomley: Lockdown poem
Lockdown L stands for lonely even though I am married O stands for feeling like a outcast and not fitting...
Lu Skerratt: Am I Addicted to My Phone?
My phone broke a few days ago. It breathed its last techno breath and gave up, ready to be recycled...
Trish Chester: Sad, Mad and Bad
When I was eleven years old a so-called ‘novelty’ record was released, called ‘They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha...
Ryan Oxley: Sobriety and Mindful Meditation
I’ve waited about six months to write this down. It comes at a time of national emergency and enforced lockdown,...
Karolyn: Lockdown Poetry Workshop
I have created this poetry workshop to help get your creative juices flowing and get you writing poems about your...
Group Poem: Unvisited
https://youtu.be/8Vbor1a2rek 'Unvisited' written by Joan Ellis, Rachel Burton, Juliet Mcdonald and Shirin Teifouri. Photo by Juliet Mcdonald. In particular, Connected...