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Sandy Jeffs was born in Ballarat in 1953. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1976, a time when recovery was seen as unlikely. She was in and out of institutional care for 15 years, including at the infamous Larundel Psychiatric Hospital.
Sandy was among the first to start speaking publicly about living with a mental illness, and much of her writing - including eight volumes of poetry - has been about her struggle to live a full life. She is well-known as a community educator, speaking to doctors and psychiatrists, at community health centres, and educational institutions. She has been honoured in the Victorian Honour Roll of Women, Her Place Women’s Museum, and with an OAM in 2020.
Flying with Paper Wings offers insights into madness – medical, social, personal – as well as disturbing reflections on its causes and its care. It is also a story of how poetry can become a personal saviour in the face of nearly irresistible forces. This edition is an updated edition based on the original text.
Read this exceptional book. It takes you beyond your own narrow terror towards something that might be called insight.
—Helen Elliott, The Age
Awards:
Highly Commended Certificate in the Human Rights Commission’s Non-Fiction Award 2010
SANE Book of the Year 2010
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year Award, 2010
MARCH 2024 | 9781925950946 | Paperback | 152 x 229mm | 278 pages
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4. Doublethink by Janice G Raymond (2021)
5. The Women’s Pool edited by Lynne Spender (2021)
6. On the Meaning of Sex by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2023)
7. “He Chose Porn Over Me” edited by Melinda Tankard Reist (2022)
8. Harvesting Darkness by Robin Morgan (2023)
9. The Rust Red Land by Robyn Bishop (2023)
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11. Detransition: Beyond Before and After by Max Robinson (2021)
12. Greek Actually by Penny Zagarelou-Mackieson (2023)
13. Invisible Women of Prehistory Judy Foster (2013)
14. The End of Patriachy by Robert Jensen (2017)
15. Grace & Marigold by Mira Robertson (2024)
16. Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans (2020)
17. Haifa Fragments khulud khamis (2015)
18. Being and Being Bought by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2013)
19. The Leaves by Jacqueline Rule (2024)
20. Flying with Paper Wings (new edition) by Sandy Jeffs (2024)
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Statement from Spinifex Press
#WeStandWithUshaAkella
Men’s rights are alive and well in India.
We have been subject to a mass outpouring from Men’s Rights Activists who have targeted Usha Akella’s book I Will Not Bear You Sons and placing one star reviews on the Amazon India website and other sites in protest of its publication.
MRAs have taken exception to a line quoted in online book reviews (regarding aborting male fetuses) and have not looked at the poem in its full context. If they had looked at the context, it is the speaking character answering her tyrannical father-in-law who wants the speaker to have only sons.
Usha’s poetry is brave and brilliant. We stand behind this book and trust you will too.