The Wall

By Angelina Souren

"Your poem has got real feeling in it!"
- Kevin Halford

"Het hamert er wel in, moet ik je zeggen!"
- Frank Beunk
(He found it very impactful.)

The Wall is a long poem caused by lots and lots of non-stop noise. I can barely look at it without starting to feel the incredible noise stress again to which I was exposed for several years.

It eventually inspired me to pour it all into these words, but not until after something happened that unlocked the door to my creativity. That door had been slammed shut when I was still a young child, its key turned and carelessly thrown away.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angelina Souren
• Release date: Jun 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466172548

Angelina Souren

Angelina Souren is a highly versatile person who used to work in tourism and hospitality in Amsterdam, quit her job in her mid-twenties and turned herself into an earth and life scientist. She’s emigrated several times and has carried out fieldwork in yet other countries. These days, she mostly focuses on inclusivity and diversity, including aspects like workplace bullying and neuroscience, as well as on bioethics sensu lato.She is based in Portsmouth in England, has previously lived in Florida and spent a large chunk of her adult life in Amsterdam. She was the eldest of three daughters whose mother passed away after a long illness (vastly metastasised breast cancer) when all three siblings were still very young and her father had a severe borderline personality disorder, so she has always needed to be very practical.Angelina became self-employed in 1997; her siblings also run their own businesses. You can pay her a visit at angelinasouren.com for more background.She started writing stories in primary school, was on her school’s first newspaper team and already managed to get a letter published in a national magazine when she was still a teenager.Angelina has since written and edited professionally for clients from all over the word, for example for publishers and high-end engineering consultancies like Arcadis. She’s published several books, both fiction and non-fiction:Mixed Spices (flash fiction)FCQ (flash fiction, partly overlaps with Mixed Spices)Crunchy Peanuts (flash fiction)We need to talk about this - about the new eugenics (non-fiction)Is cruelty cool? (non-fiction)She is a former board member of the Environmental Chemistry (and Toxicology) Section of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society as well as former editor-in-chief of its newsletter and scientific yearbook, a former member of the board and of various committees of a Dutch foundation for women in science and technology called NIMF, and former associate editor of the international newsletter of the US-based Geochemical Society.Fun facts about her? She flew a small aircraft for a few minutes, during a flying lesson for which she had a discount coupon, before she learned how to start a car. She sometimes sports blue, pink or turquoise hair and her hair is currently brightly henna-red.

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