Synopsis
Poetry that is testament to the transforming power of the imagination, poetry that catches the reader in the full glare of its light, challenging the isolation, stigma and myths of mental illness.
About the Author
Ken Smith and Matthew Sweeney have made their selection from more than 5,000 poems contributed to the Bethlem & Maudsley National Benefit Poetry Project by poets working as individuals or in groups like Survivors' Poetry. They have set these new poems in a continuing tradition of writers who have created poetry out of the extremes of mental distress, including John Bunyan, Christopher Smart, John Clare, Fernando Pessoa, Weldon Kees, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, David Gascoyne, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Paul Durcan, Sean O'Brien, Iain Crichton Smith and Jean `Binta' Breeze.
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