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Main : poetry, mental health, human rights, schizophrenia


ISBN: 9781875559909
0.130 kgs
198 x 129 mm
120 pp
Wings of Angels, The: A Memoir Of Madness
Sandy Jeffs

Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Sandy Jeffs' poetry has a stark dignity, capable of conveying "shudders of intense fear". Yet in the midst of her rigours, she can access a voice both wild and funny. Sandy Jeffs' leavening sense of humour peoples her darkness with the sirens of the supermarket, a tinsel paradise and high-tech technicolour Armageddon. After all, God is only a word and angels, although mad, sing the wanderer into paradise.


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'The Wings of Angels: A memoir of madness continues Sandy Jeffs’ articulation of the spirit and reality of the underworld of the mind that pushes itself into existence through her own schizophrenia … never romanticising madness, she writes with grit and candour of the dark confusion, the well of suffering inside mental illness.'


Reviewer: Blue Dog

‘Read it because it will sweep you up and take you into another world. Read it because doing so will be enriching and challenging.’

Source: New Paradigm
Reviewer: Susan Pepper

‘Like Dante’s Inferno, these poems take us deeper and deeper into images of what can best be called hell … [this] poet’s ability to track such apocalyptic insights in coherent verse is a major achievement’

Source: Lesbiana
Reviewer: Mandy Treagus

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