Front Cover portrait of Sandy Jeffs |
Poems from the MadhouseSANDY JEFFS
POETRY
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Here,
surrounded by the swirling nothingness of chaos,
with the indignant idiocy of haze and alientation,
I sit
where perception becomes a burden
and where the burden becomes the loss of perception.
SANDY JEFFS
Sandy Jeffs invites the reader into the paradoxical world of insanity: the confusion and clarity, the courage and the fear, the bleak despair and the black comedy. In reading her poetry you will emerge sadder, wiser, but also exultant in the spirit which she allows us to share. Poems from the Madhouse was awarded second prize in the FAW Anne Elder Award for Poetry 1993 and was commended in the 1994 Human Rights Award for Poetry.
women@spinifexpress.com.auThis is disturbing but quite wonderful poetry, because of its clarity, its humour, its imagery, and the insights it gives us into being human, being mad, being sane. I read and read – and was profoundly moved. I delighted in it as poetry; I was touched by its honest, courage and vulnerablity.
- Anne Deveson
The language challenges her with fifty names for madness, writing of a life of vigilance and struggle, she enlarges our understanding of human capacity. These repeated acts of courage, Sandy Jeffs' poems, "toil to make a harmony of disorder".
- Judith Rodriguez
Sandy Jeffs is the author of Blood Relations also published by Spinifex Press
1-876756039 88pp
1-876756349 Youth Edition
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