Wonderful poem which Dan Holloway performed after my recent talk in Oxford. Please click on the link to his original blog to read it.
Yesterday, I had the absolute honour of delivering the thanks to Linda Gask, who gave the second Oxford Disability Lecture, delivering a hugely-needed, unflinchingly honest, uncompromisingly demanding, and refreshingly pragmatic talk about her own experience of depression as a person, as a psychiatrist, and as an academic. There will soon be a podcast, but I wanted to share the text of the poem now. It was a fabulous, and very exciting experience delivering it to such a receptive audience, and in front of the University’s Vice Chancellor (it struck me as a delicious irony that after nattering to her for a while afterwards, I have probably spent more time with her than my bosses). Please check out Linda’s book The Other Side of Silence here.
At Hawkesbury Upton Lit Fest
Nobody’s Inspiration
Stigma is the thing with branches,
the miserly larch that will not shed its spines in winter,
the hollow…
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