| Description |
1 online resource (169 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; 1. Was This the Beginning?; Summer; Autumn; Winter; Spring; Summer, by Another Name; 2. The Beyond; Beside Her; Talking to Doctor Beam; Safety Measures; She Says I Hate You; There Are Other Kids; What Next?; A Map of the World; Whatever; Birds in a Cage; 3. Perspectives (1); This is Bernard's Answer; Walking to Africa; Rooms; Being There; A Red Canvas; The Coffee Table; 4. Another Autumn; What Was It?; Home Leave; O Another Winter; The Angel/Nurse; Ducks; 5. Voices; 6. Cutting the Deck; A Long Way from Home |
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Not the Fair GroundWhite, and Shades of Pale; The Darkest Place in the Universe; Aftermath; An Afternoon Walking; The E Word; Coming Up ... ; 7. The Homecoming; ... Going Down; Another Ordinary Day Another Ambulance; 8. The Adult Inside the Child; The Adult Inside the Child is Asked to Come Out, Please Please Come Out Now; Finger Knitting; In the Adult Mental Health Unit; Noise(s); Cutting Connections; Sing-A-Long; 9. Visiting Hours; The Trick of Almost Winning; Harm's Way; Two Cats; Slice; 10. False Perception; The Colour Blue; Newly Discovered Sites on the Moon; Spells; And Sat Down Beside Her .. |
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The News on Reality11. The Not-Great Escape; Out Patient, Out; Out Driving Round Town on Friday Night; Where is She?; Wash; Shade; 12. Perspectives (2); What You Say; What They Say; How Things Lie; 13. Epilogue; Laptop; Your Right Arm; For Her, Poetry (i); For Her, Poetry (ii); Note and acknowledgements; Copyright |
| Summary |
Portraying a parent's experience of coming to terms with the new and frightening world of mental health care, this narrative explores the myriad foreign ways of diagnosis and treatment. Written from a mother's perspective, the poetic sequence displays the anguish and complexity of dealing with mental illness, describing the events of an ordinary family?the numerous visits to doctors, the treatments that don't work, and the people who suddenly have answers and heartbreaking histories of their own to tell. At the heart of the book lies an outstanding set of poems about electroconv |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Poetry
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Mentally ill -- Poetry
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POETRY -- Australian & Oceanian.
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Mental illness.
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Mentally ill.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781775582373 |
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177558237X |
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