Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank Ruth McLoughlin and Martin Dodsworth for their help in discussing the ideas in this paper.
Notes on contributor
Trained at Birkbeck, University of London in Psychodynamic Counselling, the author works as a student counsellor at University of Westminster. He has a practice-based PhD in Creative Writing with a thesis on reading as a writer in Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson. His poems have been published in various journals including Poetry Review and Psychodynamic Practice.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).