Boris Johnson's Ode to Rachel Kelly

Mayor of London Boris Johnson wrote and performed a poem in tribute to Rachel Kelly at the launch of her new book Black Rainbow.

…There is no known disaster
That poetry can’t master
No human agony that it can’t calm
So when your nerves have turned to jelly
Follow clever Rachel Kelly
And uncork a poem’s magic verbal balm…

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Rachel Kelly

Rachel Kelly

Rachel Kelly is a former Times journalist who is now a mental health campaigner, public speaker, and writer.  In her early thirties, Rachel was diagnosed with serious depression and subsequently suffered two major depressive episodes. These two episodes have become the defining events of h...More about Rachel Kelly