Patterns of Mourning begun after a sad bereavement and takes the process a dangerous love-affair within which the narrator turns into more and more risky and indifferent from fact. Written by means of a tender mom coming-of-age, agony the trauma of a serious Manic-Depressive Episode, this vibrant account of grief, loneliness and love is a sprawling, relentless confessional poem, composed by way of pastiche of deconstructed emails, letters and delineated manic, longhand prose. Written over the process the narrator’s breakdown and while in psychiatric care, nightmares either lived and imagined conjure obsessive hallucinatory manifestations to shape an ecstatic and melancholic diary of the entire internal techniques of 1 going mad, by myself.

About the Author

Melissa Lee-Houghton is a Northern author of poetry and prose. She is at the moment engaged on her first complete selection of poems and writes for the quick evaluation. Born in 1982 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, she has lived in Lancashire all her grownup lifestyles after uprooting because of family members breakdown. Taken out of faculty at thirteen to wait a baby psychiatric unit, it grew to become visible to these round her that she used to be extreme and bothered, and episodes of self-harm in the course of serious anxiousness and melancholy resulted in her being admitted and assessed in psychiatric care, elderly 14. clinically determined with Bipolar Affective disease at 15, Melissa has suffered various episodes which led to critical own trauma and a protracted conflict with drugs. She suffered post-natal melancholy as a unmarried teenage mum or dad, and skilled harrowing puerperal psychosis after the start of her moment baby, in 2006.