Natalie Brent

‘Is there any way out of the mind?’ a famous and possibly deranged

woman once asked. Miss Plath and I have very much in common, let alone

the above question. I escape ‘the’ mind by living vicariously through

my words. I experience my true self when I have pen in hand and I feel

an unspoken connection with the universe when I am able to stain a

stark page with the madness contained within me. I have been writing

my debut novel for 15 years now (har har – haven’t we all?). The

subject matter, characters, plot and sub-plots keep on changing and

thus I decided to traipse back into the boudoir of poetry writing,

hoping to revive my creative brain and to spark a thousand pages of

awe-inspiring writing. My poetry is definitely driven by emotion and

is hopefully as honest and exposing to the reader as it is to me.