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    Why The Hell Should I? A Dyslexic Perspective on Creative Writing: Critical Reflection & Barriers to Participation
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    Why The Hell Should I? A Dyslexic Perspective on Creative Writing: Critical Reflection & Barriers to Participation

    By JRP Taylor

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    This work is completed as it stands as an author based self-case study. It is presented as a genuine insight into my world as a dyslexic creative writer born with an utterly disabling learning difficulty.This work is also reflective comment on my journey to create this essay (book), itself inspired by my application for a Ph.D. in Creative Writing. I have to assume that you as the reader have some awareness of or at least a basic understanding of dyslexia; both cause and effect. This Book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It is supplied free of cost on the full understanding that you, as the reader WILL contribute to the research.

    I ask a simple question here; is dyslectualism discrimination or not? (Dyslectualism, a new word, is here defined briefly as the existence of prejudice and discrimination, and/or antagonism directed against a person with dyslexia or other specific learning difficulty that manifests itself as dyslexia).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrittunculi Records & Books UK
    Release dateMar 27, 2017
    ISBN9781370379392
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    Why The Hell Should I? A Dyslexic Perspective on Creative Writing: Critical Reflection & Barriers to Participation
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    JRP Taylor

    About: Jonathan Taylor (UK / Bulgaria) English singer / songwriter born Warwick 1966. Taylor notes with a smile, “At 15 when I bought my first second-hand guitar and amp for 75 pounds, my mother said it was a complete waste of money.” Although it’s left unsaid, one gets the feeling she’s probably still eating her words today. Since then, his reviewers have been somewhat more generous. It’s been said he is the possessor of a ‘marvellous dusty, dusky voice full of resonance and beauty’ by local press and a ‘real talent’ by the British Politician Tony Benn, while fans continue to liken him to Don Mclean, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and even Neil Diamond. Taylor’s lyrics remain consistent in theme, his overwhelming need to lend his voice to those who remain without. Whether they’re victims of the Bulgarian Communist Regime (Izvinavi) or an elegy to those lost in 9/11 (‘If Only’) and the messages they left behind. Again and again he returns to his subject, in ‘Holocaust Denier’ written after meeting England’s only known Jewish Auschwitz survivor Leon Greenman, his words convey not only the horror of genocide but implore us to remember, should we let it happen again. Both tracks featured on BBC and worldwide radio and for which British PM of the time Gordon Brown, wrote to thank him. Even the house he now calls home in central Bulgaria, used as a Partisan hide-out for anti-nazi resistance fighters throughout WW2, has brought him inspiration in the form of the song ‘Partisan.’ You begin to get the feeling Taylor needs this kind of connection to the past and a large helping of tragedy for both sustenance and creativity. Taylor’s music urges us to question why atrocities happen, whether they are individual or collective. He takes tragedy, seemingly internalising the pain and then slowly from his depths comes something beautiful, skilful, deeply memorable and strangely- immensely listenable. Cursty Hoppe, 2012.

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