The other side of having a border collie brain is, occasionally, having to look after ‘the black dog’. In this episode I look at the persistent myth that being a poet is somehow connected to poor mental health.

Show notes

• Quora: ‘Do poets get depression or do depressed people write poetry?‘
• ‘30 depression poems to get you through tough times‘
• The Sylvia Plath Effect: Mental Illness in Eminent Creative Writers by James C. Kaufman
• I Thought You Were A Poet by Joshua Mehigan