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'We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill. MAD Poetry is an initiative that originated in the Illawarra, evolving in 2019 into workshop pilots in Port Kembla and Wollongong supported by the Mental Health Commission of NSW. 2020 sees MAD Poetry find a home at Red Room Poetry coordinated by David Stavanger.
'The key focus is on creating a safe writing space for emerging voices with a lived/living experience of mental health issues to express how they see the world, where these poets can define themselves through their creativity not their diagnosis, and explore by pen and page their experience of illness, institutions, recovery, self-care, and beyond.'
Source: Red Room Company.
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* Contents derived from the
Darlinghurst,
Kings Cross area,
Inner Sydney,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:The Red Room Company
, 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Better Out Than Ini"I feel gagged sometimes censored of the words I wish to speak", single work poetry
- Crieri"When I cry,", single work poetry
- The Z–A of Crazyi"Zonk the over-zealous zeal of your zany zoomorphic zoom", single work poetry
- Role Modelsi"Somebody tell us bout the way we living,", single work poetry
- From Bed to the Cat Bowli"Through my bedroom window", single work poetry
- Ghost Songi"Thought is a cancer of time: the heavens die in their", single work poetry
- Dissociate Is Toi"Dissociate", single work poetry
- Standing in the Burnti"In the burnt-out skeleton of a house, talk of smoke, noise, blown to the ground by wind in", single work poetry
- From the Book of Puns and Other Altered Sentencesi"the blue chair is algorithmic and we who are not apostrophes", single work poetry
- Comic Sansi"This is your form", single work poetry
- Descenti"A peep of psychiatrists administer a shadow casting out a swarm of depression", single work poetry
- Lovei"creativity of plus measures,", single work poetry
- Lonelinessi"you don't have to go through this alone,", single work poetry
- Depressioni"the voice of the demon inside your noggin,", single work poetry
- Dog's Barkingi"the crush..", single work poetry
- My Toy Soldiersi"the mind that's vindictive of pain pressure and violence..", single work poetry
- The Stairway to Heaveni"the mind..", single work poetry
- The Monsteri"When I was born, I lived with a monster,", single work poetry
- Thread Bare or Bare Threadsi"A fashion style to reflect my identity", single work poetry
- Permission to Forgeti"You have permission to forget", single work poetry
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