Written & Presented by Matthew Sweeney
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 4
According to a study by Kay Redfield Jamison, poets are thirty times more likely to undergo a depressive illness than the rest of the population, and twenty times more likely to be committed to an asylum. It is the unconscious that drives poetry, the jumps and sudden lurches that forge new connections with things not connected before, new ways of seeing. And it is also in the unconscious that the voices of the irrational lurk.Dur: 27minsSTEREO - Radio Documentary
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