Diana Cant is a Consultant Child Psychotherapist who has worked for many years with highly distressed and depressed young people, many of whom are often in residential care. She won the inaugural Child Psychotherapy Essay Prize, has written many articles and professional papers, and contributed to mental health programmes on BBC 4.
She has an MA in Poetry Writing from Newcastle University through the Poetry School in London. She is a member of the Mid Kent Stanza Group, and the Canada Water Poetry Group. Her work has been published in Finished Creatures, The Alchemy Spoon, Brittle Star, Ink, Sweat and Tears, and Nine Muses, Her poetry has also appeared in various anthologies such as Humanagerie, Eighty Four, Places of Poetry and Beyond the Storm. She was longlisted in the Ginko Prize, 2019, and commended in the Hippocrates Prize in 2021. Her pamphlet, Student Bodies 1968, was published by Clayhanger Press in 2020. |
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'At Risk' by Diana Cant
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'At Risk' is published on 1st August 2021
ISBN: 978-1-913329-57-0 Paperback, 34 pages, 21 x 14.8cm RRP £8.00 Free postage within the UK For international orders, please contact the author through our CONTACT page or their own website if displayed on their page. If an overseas order is sent to us, we regret that we can refund only 90% of the payment made, because there will be a 10% handling charge. |
"These poems give a harrowing voice to some of the most deprived and abused children in our society. Diana Cant’s ability to distil into poetry the powerful emotions communicated by these young people in therapy, gives the poems an unusual impact. They also communicate the effect of these children’s harsh and ugly truths on the therapist who struggles to listen to what often feels nearly unbearable to hear. And yet the poems are hauntingly beautiful and can be read and re-read, helping the reader to bear to hear what the children need to say."
— Monica Lanyado Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. Author of The Presence of the Therapist and Transforming Despair to Hope. "In her role as a child psychotherapist, Diana Cant has provided comfort and support to young people whose lives have been marked by difficult events; as a poet, she has extended that role to give voice and agency to speakers who are often not heard. Cant’s poetic gifts are such that she tells these harrowing stories with great empathy, never forgetting the human suffering behind them, while highlighting the humour and resilience of their subjects. This is a tough book, but one created out of love and a genuine desire to represent these brave survivors"
-- Tamar Yoseloff |
