Emotional Outbursts: Recent Episodes

Leah Hickey

Emotional Outburstsis a ‘part-fact, part-fiction otherworld of love letters’ which integrates free verse poetry and Early Modern English with contextual research. Emotional Outbursts is produced by Leah Hickey, an artist and writer primarily responding to love and loss.

On ghosts and grieving

On wishes and epiphanies

On the Perfect Victim

On friends and lovers

On Beginning Again

On repercussions

On Love or Lack Thereof

On delayed fuses

On the women in my life

On doubt and disbelief

On yearning, feverishly

On the dream girl, kind of

On Death and Adoration

On crossroads

On home

On hatred and the artist's hand

On women, girls and crulety

On women, girls and cruelty

On doing, being, feeling not much of anything

On the Cat as the Artist's Muse

On love letters and gravestones

On Prayer Room, 'Peasants...' and other fictions

On the colour red

On the origins of Betty Boop

On failure and the future

On Amy and 'Frank'

On Loneliness

On 'The Beauty Myth'

On channeling lived experience

On self compassion

On grief, moving on and through

On storytelling

On Hollywood decay

On Anniversaries and New Beginnings

On fashioning identity and Louise Brooks

On Christmas and 'The Year of Magical Thinking'

On 'Green Girl', Faye Wong and Enid Coleslaw

On Audrey, Marilyn, Hattie and Crystal

On 'How to Get Attention When You're Drowning'

On existentialism, Freddie Mercury and Jeff Buckley

On Morecambe and Wise and David Bowie

On God, eulogies and 'Desperate Housewives'

On comprehending grief and oil painting

On 'Emotional Outbursts', 'The Art Spirit' and Druidism

30/11/2022

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31/07/2022

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31/03/2022

Introduction