Perception (1) : Poetry on Mental Health (E4), Friday 5th November 2021, 3 - 4 pm
With Briony Bax, Louisa Campbell, Rachel Lewis and Andrew McMillan. This event was hosted by Paul Stephenson
How do we express where we are, what this feels like, and whether we will get through it? What do we observe in others and their struggles? And what about love, family, and relationships? For this event we are delighted to feature Andrew McMillan, reading from his much-anticipated collection, Pandemonium, already hailed as [an] ‘exceptional vigil of a book’ (Kate Kellaway, The Observer). Joining him is Briony Bax, reading from Lament – 'a journey through a brutal world of mental illness' – Louisa Campbell – whose debut collection about mental illness, psychiatry, and recovery, Beautiful Nowhere, has met with rave reviews – and Rachel Lewis, whose pamphlet, Three Degrees of Separation, won the 2019 Wordsmith Pamphlet Prize.
*Content Warning: mention of and probable discussion of mental illness and trauma
