Please Hear What I'm Not Saying

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Read the Poet Biographies here.

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Fundraising Total so far...£621.52 (August 21st 2020)

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FOR UK CHARITY MIND

AND £25.86 FOR THE JOSHUA NOLAN FOUNDATION, SCOTLAND

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Runner up for Best Anthology (Saboteur Awards 2018) 

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With over 600 submissions, poets from around the world put their pens to paper to create this anthology, enthused by a common goal to raise money for UK mental health charity, Mind. With poems focusing on mental health from a wide range of experiences, this book aims to continue the worldwide conversation about mental health.

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'These poems crackle with the electricity of experience and sing with the effort of rendering that experience in language. This is work that stands a few inches away from your face and tells you tales that shudder with a terrible beauty; these voices must be listened to because what they are saying is something that all of us, whoever we are, need to know.' Ian McMillan

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The profits from this book go to UK Charity, Mind.

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Trigger warnings by chapter:

Section One: References include war, depression, grief, alcoholism, bulimia, trauma, suicide

Section Two: Sexual abuse, self harm, suicide threat, Borderline personality disorder, electro shock therapy, razors

Section Three: Postpartum depression, hospital ward

Section Four: Anxiety, pills, Borderline personality disorder, eating disorder Section Five: Poverty

Section Six: Alzheimer’s

Section Seven: Depression

Section Eight: Therapy