{"id":16494,"date":"2018-05-16T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16494"},"modified":"2018-04-29T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T13:44:11","slug":"for-mental-health-awareness-week-fiona-donaghy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/for-mental-health-awareness-week-fiona-donaghy\/","title":{"rendered":"For Mental Health Awareness week: Fiona Donaghy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Public World of Mania<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cereal box is so exciting &#8211;<br \/>\nthe colours wonderful and ignorant<br \/>\nand I taste nothing because I am fast.<\/p>\n<p>There is a waterfall through my head<br \/>\nI never sleep, why waste time?<br \/>\nI speed race in running shoes red shoes and ruby slippers<\/p>\n<p>I am fizzy and multi-coloured<br \/>\nrainbow thoughts<br \/>\nyellow girl<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiona Donaghy<\/strong>: I signed up for a poetry class at the UEA in 2005. It was one of the most exciting things I have ever done. \u00a0I have not stopped writing since.<\/p>\n<p>Now I use writing as a way to, control my bipolar disorder. In my silent depressions, when my voice is mute, when it hides at the back of my throat. I write to my doctors explaining my pain. My pen is a more reliable picture of information than my tears.<\/p>\n<p>And then during mania when the world is brightly coloured divine and intently creative, my pen works quickly so I might record something out of the ordinary, and that something in another mood, might become a poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Public World of Mania A cereal box is so exciting &#8211; the colours wonderful and ignorant and I taste nothing because I am fast. There is a waterfall through my head I never sleep, why waste time? I speed race in running shoes red shoes and ruby slippers I am fizzy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16495,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16494\/revisions\/16495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}