{"id":79662,"date":"2025-11-09T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/illuminated-the-little-box-which-contains-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:40:00","slug":"illuminated-the-little-box-which-contains-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=79662","title":{"rendered":"Illuminated &#8211; The Little Box Which Contains the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for over a year<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Emily Berry leads us on an exploration of agoraphobia: a poetic journey through the lives of people who don&#8217;t like going on journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Agoraphobia is elusive and elastic \u2013 and it&#8217;s very probably not what you think it is.<\/p>\n<p>Poet Emily Berry was diagnosed with agoraphobia over ten years ago, a condition which limits her ability to travel. And so she&#8217;s setting off in a different way: on a journey into the life of the mind, guided by a chorus of fellow agoraphobics. What does it mean to come up against the boundaries of the self and how might those limits be breached through the power of the imagination \u2013 in the words of poet Vasko Popa, &#8220;the little box which contains the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Featuring Graham Caveney, Charlotte Levin and Peter Ruppert.<\/p>\n<p>Includes extracts from a BBC interview with Dr Claire Weekes.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Caveney&#8217;s memoir is called On Agoraphobia (Picador)<br \/>\nCharlotte Levin&#8217;s most recent novel is If I Let You Go (Mantle)<br \/>\nPeter Ruppert&#8217;s on-line community is anxietyfitness.com<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sw-text-primary sw-font-bold sw-transition sw-ease sw-transition-colors sw-duration-350 motion-reduce:sw-transition-none group-active:sw-text-accent group-active:sw-underline group-focus-visible:sw-text-accent group-focus-visible:sw-underline group-hover:sw-text-accent group-hover:sw-underline sw-text-brevier\">Programme Website<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16px\" height=\"16px\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"sw-ease sw-transition motion-reduce:sw-transition-none sw-duration-350 sw-transition sw-ease sw-duration-350 motion-reduce:sw-transition-none sw-ml-2 sw-ml-1 sw-inline-block sw-fill-accent\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M21.9,16.9v11.5H3.7V10.2h11.1V7.6H1V31h23.6V16.9H21.9z M18,1v2.6h10.2l-0.5-1.1L11,19l1.9,1.9L29.6,4.3l-1.2-0.5V14H31V1 H18z\"\/><\/svg><button class=\"sw-group sw-text-pica sw-block sw-w-fit sw-pt-4\"><span class=\"sw-text-primary sw-font-bold sw-transition sw-ease sw-transition-colors sw-duration-350 motion-reduce:sw-transition-none group-active:sw-text-accent group-active:sw-underline group-focus-visible:sw-text-accent group-focus-visible:sw-underline group-hover:sw-text-accent group-hover:sw-underline sw-mr-0.5\">Show less<\/span><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"0.75rem\" height=\"0.75rem\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"sw-ease sw-transition motion-reduce:sw-transition-none sw-duration-350 sw-ml-1 sw-mt-1 sw-inline-block sw-fill-accent\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M0 18L16 0l16 18z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002lzwr?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available for over a year Emily Berry leads us on an exploration of agoraphobia: a poetic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4462,8077,1201],"class_list":["post-79662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-box","tag-illuminated","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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