PROFESSOR Anthony Clare recently wrote that there is a significant link between manic depression and artistic creativity. I think that, in a modest way, I bear this out. I spent most of my 20s and 30s in hospital with manic depression.
In 1960, I had a poem published in The Times Literary Supplement and in 1985 a poem in New Statesman.
I have won literary prizes in Punch, New Statesman, Time and Tide and Church Times.
Over the past 10 years, I have set roughly 100 competitions in New Statesman (they pay £5 a time), and set quite a few questions in Church Times.
Since 1992, I have had up to six letters a week in the Worcester Evening News.
Life at 64 (at present) is good, but I went through sheer hell at times in the 1960s and 1970s - and still cannot find a compatible female partner, though I have a several dear, long standing female friends, and two deeply-loved sisters.
GEORGE COWLEY,
Worcester
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