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A Memoir of Madness
Sandy Jeffs
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A Memoir of Madness Sandy Jeffs |
Sandy Jeffs is a poet of great courage. Not only does she plumb the depths of human experience in her journey into madness, she is also prepared to share that journey with her readers. In a realm where nightmares wrestle with dreams, where death by devouring is a stop in the journey, where the underworld becomes a tourist destination
The darkness is leavened by a sense of humour peopled 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.
Sandy Jeffs is the author of the best-selling and award-winning collection, Poems from the Madhouse now in its third printing, and of Blood Relations. She is a frequent public speaker in schools and at conferences about her experience of schizophrenia.
Jeffs, who has lived with schizophrenia for 25 years, brings dignity to a dark subject. Her poems tell of life with a “nightmare” illness.
She conveys the disturbing moments in everyday situations with a clarity and humour that brings some sense to an often misunderstood condition.
Ian Lynch The Examiner Tasmania
…it is deeply profound, wonderfully glib, and hilariously witty all at once without being pretentious or over written. It is as a whole, what I can only describe as ‘chaste’ poetry. It is virginal, real frank The blurb reads ‘Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, hardly has anyone written so candidly about madness’. However I would go one step futher, and say that, and in this I include Plath and Sexton, hardly has anyone written so purely about madness… her internal madness and our external one? Further, why is the one social norm and the other social taboo?… You should read this book if you are human, if you are good bad, sad ugly, or indifferent.
Bianca Ferguson University of Melbourne
120pp 128x198mm pb
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