Carol Robson

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Yorkshire born, I started writing again in 2009 and her first poetry collection Words of Darkness and Light was published by Thynks Publications in Sept 2014. I started performing at Spoken Word events in 2012 and gradually has been dabbling with comedy which she now includes as part of her performances, which led her to appear at the 2015 UK Women in Comedy Festival held in Manchester. Performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2014 where her show 'Finding Me' received a 4 star review from BroadwayBaby. I have since performed at venues. fringe and festival events in Brighton and from London to Manchester. A highlight for me was in October 2015 when I performed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam as part of ‘The Open Sky’ performance, this was a performance around intergenerational words using my poetry. In 2016 I performed my Spoken Word/Comedy show ‘Just Saying How It Is’ at the Great Yorkshire Fringe in York and at the Camden Fringe. In 2017 I performed for the first time in Kalamaki on the island of Zante. In 2018 I performed at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. I was honoured to be invited to perform some of my poetry at the Harms Of Hate event funded by the Home Office and held at the Magna Science Park in Rotherham on Sept 27th 2018, I also wrote the poem ‘No Labels’ especially for this event.

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Another Psychosis Here in a place, which I should be I need to be here and in all places Yet! an urge to run rages through me fear of physical contact, my brain now in overload here, feeling alone in a place full of people. Like a frightened gazelle taunted by its hunter I search for the exit to safety an egress to my solitary state my place of safety in my Prozac stained mind. Neural networks firing their manic impulses ignoring my vain attempt of rational logic craving for their mania overload knowing again, they will fight a long battle against the Lithium army, that will bring them down. Highs and lows come and go trying to live your normal life my exterior facade is all you see as it hides a mind and soul in turmoil just trying to get through to the next hour. A life in a day to day existence that craves for whatever is normal a time bomb mind with a fragile trigger controlled by whatever the drug of choice is. Clinging to a life of hopes and dreams that is out of this drug controlled despair I will one day rise again like the Phoenix out of the ashes of Another Psychosis. © Carol Robson 2011

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