Shortly after the death of TV presenter Caroline Flack, her friend Ophelia Lovibond struggled to watch any footage of her. The actor would throw her phone across the room when an unexpected video of Flack came up on social media. She had lost family members in the past, but Flack was the first of her friends to die – and the impact was “seismic”.
“The grief and horror of that pain was very different to anything I had felt before,” she said. “It was so sudden and she was gone. There was no illness. There was no wrapping our heads around it. I felt I needed something to help with that more than the losses I’d experienced in the past – and poetry really helped.”
