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- Figure-Process-Material January 31, 2017
- Elaine Showalter and ‘the feminisation of madness’ November 11, 2016
- THE COURAGE TO COME FORWARD – An Interview with Colin Hambrook October 24, 2015
- Crippen takes his gloves off for Cameron! June 25, 2015
- Growing up with god July 22, 2014
- For the man who buries beds June 9, 2014
- Furniture for a room of loss and mourning February 7, 2014
- On the Astral January 22, 2014
- Jane and Samantha comment on audio-description November 12, 2013
- Some further thoughts on audio-description October 19, 2013
- Simon Jenner kindly wrote the following review of the Outside In poetry event at Pallant House Gallery October 16, 2013
- Survey Monkey October 9, 2013
- Knitting Time is finally on the horizon October 5, 2013
- Slipping in and out of breakfast September 17, 2013
- World Suicide Prevention Day 2013 September 9, 2013
- Leonora’s Death Bird in the Valley of the Shadow of Elisabeth Frink September 4, 2013
- Blue Black Feather: some thoughts on the audio-description of the drawing and its link to poetry August 16, 2013
- Bird Song: audio-description July 19, 2013
- Freedom in colour June 17, 2013
- Freedom June 5, 2013
- Facing the Demons May 30, 2013
- Release The Pressure May 16, 2013
- Learning to Be May 1, 2013
- Some reflections on one of major characters in Knitting Time – Crow March 27, 2013
- Latest drawing February 21, 2013
- Knitting Time: a draft introduction February 11, 2013
- John Clare: ‘An Invite, to Eternity’ December 30, 2012
- Opening up: a bit more about my life story December 9, 2012
- On Kurt Vonnegut: ‘Armageddon in Retrospect’ November 4, 2012
- We are all one! October 3, 2012
- Celebrating the sounds of words, without losing meaning September 30, 2012
- The mirror that refused to look back September 3, 2012
- Listening to the undercurrents September 3, 2012
- Writing as a form of survival September 1, 2012
Category Archives: Poetry
For the man who buries beds
Here is a poem in draft. I seem to be very preoccupied with death and dying just now… This is a poem for my father who is ageing fast. Much of this year has been taken up with seeing him … Continue reading
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On the Astral
. It’s been a while since I updated my blog and as I’ve been fairly busy painting I thought I’d add a photo of this work-in-progress. It’s great to be working on a fairly large scale (4 foot x 4 … Continue reading
Simon Jenner kindly wrote the following review of the Outside In poetry event at Pallant House Gallery
Reblogged from Survivors’ Poetry Blog on DAO Colin Hambrook’s double launch on Saturday 12th October at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester was – it’s too easy to use such vocabulary – the most inspiring Survivor event since the 21st … Continue reading
Survey Monkey
Knitting Time is an ongoing visual arts and poetry project, which aims to address personal experience of the links between suppressed grief, loss and psychosis through the medium of art and poetry. Through this survey I hope to get critical … Continue reading
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Knitting Time is finally on the horizon
A starting point for the work on show in the Knitting Time exhibition is a collection of poems which explore personal narratives from infancy to the present time. The stories stem from my induction as an infant into the delusionary … Continue reading
Posted in Antonin Artaud, art, mental health, mythology, Poetry, psychology, psychosis
Tagged Philosophy
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Bird Song: audio-description
I’ve begun the task of writing descriptions of the illustrations for the book and adding some personal reflections which put the poems in context. I thought I’d share the first of these, which relates the drawing of a sparrow I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in art, Birds, mental health, Poetry, psychology
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Freedom
The book is fast approaching completion now. It’s been pretty exhausting but I am pleased with the way it’s shaping up. The drawings are coming together and I’m beginning to think about putting some colour in the cover image. The … Continue reading
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Tagged art, cognitive dissonance, illustration, poetry, psychology
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Some reflections on one of major characters in Knitting Time – Crow
In the early 1980s I developed a fear of crows. I could hear them listening to my inner thoughts. Their ugly call resounded like words of doom, pouring scorn and judgement on everything. Out walking across Finsbury Park and Alexandra … Continue reading
Posted in mythology, Poetry, psychosis
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Knitting Time: a draft introduction
I’ve begun a draft of the introduction to the poems and illustrations in a poetry collection I am working towards, which will be published by Waterloo Press. It would be great to have your comments and responses to the following … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, psychosis
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We are all one!
In throwing myself into an exploration of psychosis I am challenging demons that persist to hang over me. I am searching for an illusive key. My sense of picking up this baton feels heavy and formidable, but I have a … Continue reading