The Poetry of Suicide: J.T. Welsch in conversation with Nikolai Duffy

Join J. T. Welsch for a discussion on The Poetry of Suicide, exploring the lives and work of poets who took their own lives alongside a deeply personal reflection on the history of suicide in his own family.

Starting with Hamlet’s famous question, ‘To be or not to be?’, Welsch examines the poetry of Dante, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, uncovering what their work can reveal about the complex, often misunderstood reality of suicide.

Recovering the personal dimension often lost in medicalised public discourse, Welsch offers insights and practical ways of confronting the difficult emotional terrain of these poem-like experiences.