Singing in the Dark

Singing in the Dark is a concept album by Irish folk singer Susan McKeown, released through Hibernia Records on October 30, 2010. According to McKeown, the album is "an exploration of "Creativity & Madness through the lyrics of great poets who were writing through the lens of depression, mania, or substance abuse." With an introduction by psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, the album features poems by Lord Byron, Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gwyneth Lewis, Hayden Carruth, and James Clarence Mangan, as well as songs from John Dowland, Violeta Parra, and Leonard Cohen. (Wikipedia)