My synaesthesia is no mere quirk but a self-shaking strangeness
My initial is pale pink, the month of June is cerulean blue: synaesthesia gets my senses crosswired, and makes me who I am
by Catherine Taylor
Catherine Taylor is a freelance writer and editor and the former deputy director of the freedom of expression organisation English PEN. She writes regularly for The Guardian, the Financial Times, New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, The Economist and The Irish Times, and is editor of The Book of Sheffield: A City in Short Fiction (2019). The Stirrings, a cultural memoir of Sheffield in the 1970s and ’80s, is forthcoming.
Written by Catherine Taylor