Beyond Bedlam

Smith, Ken and Matthew Sweeney edit

'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.

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry. First English edition 1997
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.


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