This is a collection of poetry and studies which have there origins and nature in my love of writing and ideas. This devolution to writing and reading are essential to my being and, ironically, contributed to my entry into the psychiatric system n 1974 just before my 14 birthday but have sustained throughout. Books and ideas were both an early love and haven in a troubled family. Aged 12 I met an English teacher who introduced me to new poetry and then a radical lecturer and some of his students, we debated many concepts and writing generally; the relationship between...
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This is a collection of poetry and studies which have there origins and nature in my love of writing and ideas. This devolution to w...
It is now nine years since I almost died from a medically induced toxic state related to medicines prescribed for mental health issues. I now have had three previous books published by Chipmunkapublishing and gained two new qualifications to add to my the B.A (Hons) before the toxicity, a Certificate in English Studies at Warwick University and this year have completed a Dip. H.E. gained at the Open University. The doctors at the time thought, once I had survived the toxicity, the only way ahead would be a sort of vaguely animated death in long stay psychiatric care. I have proofed them wrong...
It is now nine years since I almost died from a medically induced toxic state related to medicines prescribed for mental health issues. I now have had...
Nigel, B.A (Hons), Dip.H.E, who is the author of four previous books published by Chipmunkapublishing and has spent the last year deeply immersed in the Western philosophical tradition. This has opened new avenues of enquire and some new solutions. The poetry reflects these influences in part but also the struggles and trumps of living with both mental and related physical illnesses. They are the poems and meditations of a Phoenix, who has been left for dead many times but he has always confounded the psychiatrists and physicians by rising resplendent and renewed when they had left him for...
Nigel, B.A (Hons), Dip.H.E, who is the author of four previous books published by Chipmunkapublishing and has spent the last year deeply immersed in t...
'Ghosts of Icarus' would be the my seventh book published by Chipmukapublishing. It is a collection of poetry, prose-fiction, stage-drama and non-fiction which is by way of an exorcism. These ghosts, whether personal, familial, ideological or the spectres of dead or lost friends can only be purged through the power of the pen which harnesses the imagination that dredges those dark oceans of memory within. By its very nature some of the material is more directly auto-biographical than much of my previous work, but some are purely the product of the unbound mind poured into the inkwell in my...
'Ghosts of Icarus' would be the my seventh book published by Chipmukapublishing. It is a collection of poetry, prose-fiction, stage-drama and non-fict...
'The Flight of Icarus' is an attempt to create thematic continuity within a generic division into memoir, prose-fiction and poetry. However, as is the tendency with memoir in the postmodern epoch it is fragmented. People often suggest that the future of biography lies in a radical change of form - in the development of fractured or post-modern narrative models. But this has been going on for quite a time. Cline and Angier (2014) Life Writing: A Writers & Readers Companion. p. 118. Having said that all the material of whatever genre has a material base in 'lived experience', but it is also the...
'The Flight of Icarus' is an attempt to create thematic continuity within a generic division into memoir, prose-fiction and poetry. However, as is the...
