Like many others, I spent the weekend therapising myself with Taylor Swift’s new Album, The Tortured Poets Department… and as much as I enjoyed this album (specifically ballads like Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?) I feel this album was more One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest rather than the Midsummers Night Dream-influenced Dead Poets Society type of album. Now don’t get me wrong, tracks like Cassandra, really hit the mark of what I kinda hoped from the entire album but this album hits a different type of Tortured Poet.

This album is for the Slyvia Plaths of the world, souls tortured by the world and people and this is the space for the rage to be released and this is what I LOVE about the album!

So beyond Sylvia Plath, which authors would I recommend for the TTPD?

- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - for those that are prophetic

- Persuasion by Jane Austen - for the Kelsy fans

- The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams - for the kids that were misunderstood

- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - for those that are guilty as sin