Poetry And prose to tell of my years working as a psychiatric nurse.
Poetry Quarterly Review said this of Mirror Mirror - "...the language is clear. He manages to demystify psychiatry, its processes and management, and invoke strong emotional responses. ...what strikes is the poet's genuine compassion for the plight of those stripped of dignity, of belonging..."
Excerpt
To Be Right, To Do Right
He was a big man, no neck.
Roaring
he began to kick out the ward windows.
I grabbed him away, shouted his name into his face,
asked him what he thought he was doing.
All over him muscles pulled one against the other.
"I'm a good man Sam." he said, "Whole of my life
I have done as God and the voices told me."
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
