Confessions of a Broken Doll

About the Book

This is a contemporary poetry book that delves into a dark mind space in a difficult time period of my life. Most of the poetry is my feelings or observations on how my mental illness began, evolved and how I felt people saw me and treated me .I have stuck with the one genre (which may seem self indulgent) which is how I see the world within myself rather than observing the world, this will come after this cathartic edition. I have had editors tell me this type of poetry is egotistical, but I believe these poems are what I knew and what I felt the most passion for, I would rather put out a book of not so widely received egotistical passionate poetry than more mainstream widely received poetry but lacking passion. The poems in the book have been written between 1994- 2009 (since I was 14 years old so very wide variety) and were chosen from hundreds for personal reasons. I have not done the book chronologically so you may not see me mature through the book, I felt it better to hook readers in with different insights mixed up.

About the Author

Emma is a 29 year old from Christchurch, New Zealand. Her back ground is creative writing, journalism and vet nursing. Her poetry stems from her early days of dealing with mental illness, trying to understand it and the stigma in her world. Emma spends her days writing, reading, painting and enjoying her loving animals- cats Holly 11 and Tandi 9 and rat Shar 1.