'Poems Written Out of Mental Distress', selected from the Bethlem and Maudsley National Benefit Poetry Project and published here among work, written from a similar place, by, among many, Fernando Pessoa, John Bunyan, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Weldon Kees; illustrations from the Royal Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital Archive of patients' work; and inscribed by Imma Maddox, one of the contributors, to Sister Dorothy Bell.