We are seduced by people, individuals’ who achieve extraordinarily. I never thought I would be living the life that I am living now. I am literally living out my dream. I am a poet, and a writer. I was very much in love with the stage as a child. I was four. I started reading when I was four. I was eight when I wrote my first poem. My friends were writing stories about Barbie and Ken. I was quoting Shakespeare. I took part in plays when I was very young, all through high school. Lead role in the … [Read more...] about “The captive spirit: bipolar creativity and genius”
Abigail George
“Alone in the dark: the Sylvia Plath Effect and the Northern Areas Poet Abigail George”
Alone in the dark: the Sylvia Plath Effect, and the Northern Areas poet Abigail George Author: Abigail George. Website: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5174716.Abigail_George/blog I was 16 when I first attempted to take my own life. I was seeing a psychiatrist (he of the Einsteinian-hair, he had studied at a university in Vienna, his son went to the same high school my brother went to, the highly-prestigious Grey High School for Boys) at the time who was convinced that Risperdal … [Read more...] about “Alone in the dark: the Sylvia Plath Effect and the Northern Areas Poet Abigail George”
