Skin Collection: self harm Contributor(s): Knight, Isobel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847479227 ISBN-13: 9781847479228 Publisher: Chipmunka Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 |
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Psychology | Mental Health - Medical | Mental Health |
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5" W x 8" (0.26 lbs) 102 pages |
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Publisher Description: Description The Skin Collection was initially based upon six poems that were to do with self-harming behaviour in the form of skin-picking. As Isobel developed confidence she begun to use poetry to help describe the desperateness of her depression and mood-swings. Isobel finally found a way of using words to put a voice to some very difficult feelings that were not only very confusing but also very destructive. About the Author Isobel Knight was born in Oxford in 1974. She did a degree in Winchester in 1997. She then worked in arts administration before working in managerial roles in the voluntary sector. She also trained as a Bowen Therapist (a remarkable form of gentle soft-tissue therapy from Australia) and has her own private practice. Always interested in writing, Isobel has already started to write her own autobiography. She also loves classical music and plays the Alto recorder. She also enjoys both watching classical ballet and dancing herself. Isobel is also very fond of cats, and finds them very therapeutic This is her first collection of poetry. Book Extract Someone tore at the curtains of my heart. Misery grazes my face; a rope is uncoiled from the pit of my stomach, unravelling down the road. Screams pierce the darkness in my head and whistle out of my skull. I want him, oh god. Like a sacrifice I am lain dead at her feet. Jumping Jack in somersault, reach and pull me down, In flight I soar the foggy skies that cloud my comprehension. I turn inside out, agony unscrews in the darkness. The clock moves so reluctantly I have to budge it with the second hand. |