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Two Spoken Word Poems: Brexit/Grenfell
Author(s) -
Mckennell Marika
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/bjp.12430
Subject(s) - brexit , poetry , psychology , spoken word , confusion , psychoanalysis , rhyme , literature , linguistics , art , philosophy , european union , business , economic policy
‘Leave’ is an attempt to find a creative catharsis for confusion and melancholia engendered by the Brexit vote in 2016. The poem is from the first person perspective of a leave voter, an effort to understand the ‘other’. ‘A poem for Grenfell Tower’ is an outpouring of emotion free‐written from a place of rage and despair on the day after the horrific fire in 2017.