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Catriona Knapman's avatar

Thank you for this piece. I didn’t do an arts degree but I noticed this in the spoken word scene when I used to take part in slams. I could always tell who would win based on what bad/traumatic thing they revealed in their poems. I found it hard to watch and not a great encouragement of art itself. I always felt there should be a resident therapist waiting on the sidelines for all these revelations and the impacts of sharing them to an audience often without much reaction or validation.

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