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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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The poetic language of health

When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.

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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me

Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.

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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’

An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.

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  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • Page of poetry from 'Newes from the Dead', 1651
  • A winged woman holding a lyre and a book; representing Poetry. Process print after M.A. Raimondi after Raphael.
  • A winged woman holding a lyre and a book; representing poetry. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.
  • A miser looks at his hoard of gold through his spectacles, with six lines of poetry by J. Gay. Stipple engraving by Balston.
  • Young women representing poetry and drawing, with examples of sculpture, literature, music, painting, and objets d'art. Wood engraving by H. Linton after A. Lumley.
  • The back of a double-sided qit'a, a piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations
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The Word as Body

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You Don’t Own Me

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