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Poems from the Madhouse/ Now Millennium

SANDY JEFFS/
DEBORAH STAINES

POETRY

Award-winning Joint Volume

This is a joint volume of poetry by two new poets. They are very different, and the overall effect is quite startling.

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.

I read and read - and was profoundly moved. I delighted in it as poetry; I was touched by its honesty, courage and vulnerability.

- Anne Deveson

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Deborah Staines presents vivid images that evoke both the mythic past and the technological future. Deborah was co-winner of the under 25 Mattara Poetry Prize in 1991 winner of the 1994 Mary Gilmore Award.

This book is really wild . . . There's so much passion and commitment there and she's drunk with words.

- Dorothy Hewett

Deborah Staines' poems name her realities with convincing truthfulness and intelligence. Her respect for and awareness of language's dynamic possibilities bring inner and outer worlds attentively alive.

- Fay Zwicky

1-875559-20-5 144pp 178 x 138
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