"Don’t worry about what the reader will think of you as a person; just get the truth out onto the page. The reader’s default position is not to care: you can only make them care by how you say something, not what you are saying. I don’t care what you say to me; but if you say it in a way that is engaging, evocative, open enough for me to find affinity with, and therefore empathise, you will have won me over."
Colin Dardis is a neurodivergent poet, editor and sound artist from Northern Ireland. His work, largely influenced by his experiences with depression and Asperger’s, has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA.
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