A debut collection of poems about incarceration on psychiatric wards under the provisions of the Mental Health act. Duggan deals with the characters he met over a decade, from those on the acute mental health wards, to specialist units dealing with starvation, depression, suicide attempts and self-harm. Not all darkness and terror, the poems also celebrate kindness in awful circumstances; a shared cigarette among friends, communal watching of bad TV, support found in the most unlikely of places. A vital poetry collection from Influx Press.
About the book
A debut collection of poems about incarceration on psychiatric wards under the provisions of the Mental Health act. Duggan deals with the characters he met over a decade, from those on the acute mental health wards, to specialist units dealing with starvation, depression, suicide attempts and self-harm. Not all darkness and terror, the poems also celebrate kindness in awful circumstances; a shared cigarette among friends, communal watching of bad TV, support found in the most unlikely of places. A vital poetry collection from Influx Press.