The Poetic Beauty shares experiences on mental disorder

Friday, March 01, 2019

Bame Thokwane, now known as Bame The Writer, is a 24-year-old woman who authored a book titled The Poetic Beauty: Within my Sorrow. The book is a collection of poems of her encounter with depression and anxiety and it was launched in the United Kingdom via Amazon in 2018, making it available globally.

She started writing in junior school and this latest offering features many poems, the first of which was written in 2011.

Thokwane told Arts & Culture that she was inspired to write the book by the therapy she experiences daily with poetry.

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