Acclaimed poet and mental health campaigner Hussain Manawer will be performing live extracts from his debut poetry collection Life is Sad and Beautiful at Blenheim Palace.

The Poetry Breakfast, which coincides with Mental Health Awareness Week, will be in front of an audience and includes a discussion of its themes with actor Larry Lamb.

All profits from the event will go to Blenheim’s charity of the year Restore, an Oxfordshire-based mental health charity.

Hussain visited the palace last year to record a special film for the BAFTAS.

Life is Sad and Beautiful invites the reader on Hussain’s own journey through depression and grief after the loss of his mother.

“Depression became such a part of my life; it was embedded in me as a person. I felt as if it was written in bold, yet invisible across my face,” he said.

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“It sat within the sympathetic eyes that looked at me from the ones who loved me. It hovered around my spirit, shook parts of my soul and dragged me through episodes of my years. But somehow, through poetry, I found a way out. I was able to make sense of it all.

“The cultural identity crisis, the depth of grief, the power of loss, the effect of mental health and societal stigma, I was able to identify all of life's most powerful heartbreaks and 'red flag' their relationships and connections with depression.

“I then hovered over them with a magnifying glass, which in this case was my pen, and began deciphering, analysing, breaking down every little thing that was affecting me and the way I feel,” he added.

Hussain has received commissions from the Royal Family and the BBC, as well as collaborations with Tyson Fury and a poetic contribution to Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign.

He most recently appeared alongside Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey in the mental health docu-series, The Me You Can't See, alongside Lady Gaga, Glenn Close and others.

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A selection of poems from the collection will also be on display as part of a new exhibition in collaboration with award-winning Canadian photographer Joel Robison in the Stable café.

Hussain Manawer’s Poetry Breakfast with Larry Lamb is on Wednesday, May 11, from 9.30am – 11am at The Orangery, Blenheim Palace.

Tickets cost £25 which includes a copy of  Life is Sad and Beautiful, coffee and pastry. To book go to https://www.blenheimpalace.com/whats-on/