Poems From the Madhouse

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Spinifex Press, Jan 1, 2003 - Poetry - 88 pages

Poems From the Madhouse is a powerful collection of poetry about schizophrenia, with an introduction for young people, discussing the causes/effects .

 

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Contents

Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 25
Section 26
Section 27
Section 28
Section 29
Section 30
Section 31
Section 32

Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 14
Section 15
Section 16
Section 17
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 21
Section 22
Section 23
Section 24
Section 33
Section 34
Section 35
Section 36
Section 37
Section 38
Section 39
Section 40
Section 41
Section 42
Section 43
Section 44
Section 45
Section 46
Section 47
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Poems from the Madhouse
Sandy Jeffs
Limited preview - 2003
Poems from the Madhouse
Sandy Jeffs
No preview available - 2000
Poems from the Madhouse
Sandy Jeffs
No preview available - 2002

Common terms and phrases

afraid anguish asylum attic Australia Council babbling idiot balcony beautiful black hole BRUSHED MY LONG Brutal Madness CERTIFIED INSANE computer cannot confirm confirm your call confusion Cornflowers cosmic game crawling crazy creep crushed Dark Door dead death DEATH WISH desperate imagination diagnosis Dido Doctor drowns the breath evil eyes face fear feel Fools fragile friends gaze GENTLY BRUSHED ghosts glasshouse heart holy woman inmates ISBN journey Laertes life’s live locked lonely LOOKING AT MILLAIS lost lunatic MADHOUSE madwoman Medicare mental mind mind’s MODEWARRE mystery never nice place night going noise drowns one’s Ophelia pain Palace pastiche poetry possessed PSYCHE IN DESPAIR psychosis Queen of Heaven quit reality roaming the wilderness Sandy Jeffs sanity schizophrenia seen SELF-PORTRAIT senses shadows shattered Ship of Fools sorrow soul spectres spinning world Spiritus Insaniae struggle thoughts uninvited stranger Visionary visions voices wanderer want to know waste land pursued weep whirlwind Whisper wish

About the author (2003)

Sandy Jeffs is an author born in Ballarat and has a BA from La Trobe University. She has lived with schizophrenia and all its moods for over thirty years. She is a community educator who speaks to schools, universities and community groups about what it¿s like to live with a mental illness. She is the author of the bestselling Poems from the Madhouse (1993; reprinted 2000, 2001), Loose Kangaroos (co-author, 1998), Blood Relations (2000), Confessions of a Midweek Lady: Tall Tennis Tales (2001), and The Wings of Angels: A memoir of madness (2004), and her autobiography, Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living With Madness (2009).

Bibliographic information

TitlePoems From the Madhouse
AuthorSandy Jeffs
Edition2, revised
PublisherSpinifex Press, 2003
ISBN1742194524, 9781742194523
Length88 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Poetry / Australian & Oceanian
  
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