By Shauna Darling Robertson (author)
"Award winning poet looks at a wide range of mental health issues"
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This is Robertson’s second collect of poetry - her work on You Are Not Alone has received funding from Arts Council England’s ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ programme.
The poetry covers many styles and topics – all connected to well-being and mental health. Divided into five sections each section containing diverse poems on a loosely similar theme – though all the poems are very varied and cover everything from what the mind is like to OCD type activities, from belonging to hope, happiness to allowing people space. Such a varied collection will be dipped into repeatedly, as well as being read from cover to cover.
This is the sort of book that should be available in every secondary school and classroom – as so many young adults now are experiencing such a downturn in mental health issues – to know someone is out there who understands and who can help you express these thoughts will benefit many.
This is a collection I can see me delving into regularly – the poetry is striking, beautiful and full of grace.
In her second book of poems for young people, Shauna Darling Robertson takes an in-depth look at mental health and wellbeing.
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Just like our physical health, our mental health can fluctuate over the course of our lives, or even from day to day. The poems in this collection explore a variety of topics, from how it can feel to live with various mental health conditions, to what it’s like dealing with with the everyday pressures and challenges faced by teenagers and young adults.
Do your emotions feel like mosquitoes ?one minute and breakbeats the next? Does your mind behave like a cross between a cloud and a bulldozer?? Have you ever said ‘fine, thanks’ when how you really feel is heartsick and helpless? Have you bent yourself so far out of shape in the hope of fitting in that you’ve lost touch with who you are? Read these poems and know that you are definitely not alone.
Shauna says, “Young people’s mental health has never been so high on the public agenda, and rightly so. In the past three years, the likelihood of young people having a mental health problem has increased by 50%.”
These poems are thought-provoking, reassuring, heart-breaking, galvanising, funny and hopeful. They embody a diversity of voices and experiences, and also invite us to consider how some aspects of our society might help or hinder our sense of wellbeing.
Whether reading alone or sharing in secondary classrooms or other group settings, these poems are sure to prompt a wealth of reflections and discussions.
Praise for Saturdays at the Imaginarium;
An astounding collection from one of the best imaginators around. You'll want to stay in the Imaginarium until bedtime. And maybe have a sleepover too.’ - Roger Stevens
‘A beautiful balancing act of the surreal and the graspable, the everyday and the out-of-sight in-the-mind. And always there’s a light in the window to guide you to a home you never imagined before.’ - A.F. Harrold
Shauna Darling Robertson hails from the north-east of England and now lives in the south-west. She’s had lots of different jobs over the years – librarian, copywriter, chef, web editor, charity trustee, researcher, travel agent and more.
Shauna’s poems for adults and children have been performed by actors, displayed on buses, used to compose music, turned into comic art and made into short films - as well as being widely published in magazines and anthologies. She enjoys working with other writers, artists and musicians to explore different ways of making, sharing and performing poetry.
Shauna has two chapbooks of poems for adults: Blueprints for a Minefield (Fair Acre Press, 2016) and Love Bites (Dancing Girl Press, USA, 2019). Saturdays at the Imaginarium is her first book-length collection for children, and You Are Not Alone her first for teen and young adult readers.
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In her second book of poems for young people, Shauna Darling Robertson takes an in-depth look at mental health and wellbeing. Just like our physical health, our mental health can fluctuate over the course of our lives, or even from day to day. The poems in this collection explore a variety of topics, from how it can feel to live with various mental health conditions, to what it’s like dealing with with the everyday pressures and challenges faced by teenagers and young adults. Do your emotions feel like mosquitoes ?one minute and breakbeats the next?
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed You Are Not Alone and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-18 years old
You Are Not Alone features in the following genres: Featured Books for 13+ readers, Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Poetry Books for Children, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals
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You Are Not Alone was written by Shauna Darling Robertson and published by Troika Books
You Are Not Alone has 125 pages
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