The Wings of Angels
A Memoir of Madness
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Spinifex Press
Published:10th Nov '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Sandy Jeffs' poetry has a stark dignity, capable of conveying "shudders of intense fear". Yet in the midst of her rigours, she can access a voice both wild and funny. Sandy Jeffs' leavening sense of humour peoples her darkness with the sirens of the supermarket, a tinsel paradise and high-tech technicolour Armageddon. After all, God is only a word and angels, although mad, sing the wanderer into paradise.
"A series of poems with a theatrical quality that is haunting in its exposure of the ritualistic violence perpetrated in the family home... These poems emerge like flowers on top of boiling water." Jeltje, "Five Bells, The Magazine of the Poets Union," on "Blood Relations"
ISBN: 9781876756512
Dimensions: 200mm x 132mm x 10mm
Weight: 140g
120 pages