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Tables of Contents for Beyond Bedlam
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
13
2
Felix Post
Bedlam and Beyond
15
2
Introduction
17
6
EMILY DICKINSON
The first Day's Night had come...
23
1
SYLVIA PLATH
Apprehensions
24
1
JOHN BUNYAN
from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
25
1
FERNANDO PESSOA
I Know I'm a Sick Man
25
1
T.S. ELIOT
Hysteria
26
1
EAMER O'KEEFFE
Uncoupling
27
1
SOLOMON BLUE WATERS
Out of Order
27
1
ANGELA S. HART
The Hole
28
1
Today
28
1
CICELY HERBERT
What Can I Say?
28
1
MARY O'DWYER
Reactive Depression
29
1
PATRICK MCMANUS
Door
29
2
She Thought
31
1
PASCALE PETIT
Frozen Falls
31
1
FRANK NEWSUM
Interference
32
1
PAUL DURCAN
The Turkish Carpet
33
1
MATTHEW SWEENEY
Bagpipes
34
1
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Angel that presided
35
1
'Madman' I have been call'd
35
1
PAUL DURCAN
Madman
35
1
PETER READING
About How Many?
36
1
The Euphemisms
37
1
KAREN DAVIES
ha ha
38
1
CHRISTOPHER SMART
from Jubilate Agno
38
1
HARRY FAINLIGHT
The Leaf
39
1
KEVIN McCANN
A Lesson
40
1
FATMA DURMUSH
In the Ocean
41
1
IAIN CRICHTON SMITH
Sea
42
1
IFIGENIJA SIMONOVIC
I Used to Be a Girl
42
2
BARBARA SAUNDERS
Bank Holiday Monday
44
1
SELIMA HILL
Crocuses
45
1
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES
From Death's Test Book
46
1
NIKKI GREEN
The Owl and the Pussycat
46
1
C.K. WILLIAMS
Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
47
1
JOHN TENNANT
The Second Admission
47
1
EMILY DICKINSON
Had we our senses
48
1
PETER PEGNALL
Broken Eggs
48
1
JOE ASSER
Arriving Early
49
1
Don't Flinch
50
1
CHRIS RAWLINSON
Sunday Morning in Putney
51
1
SYLVIA PLATH
I Am Vertical
51
1
ROBERT GRAVES
The Halls of Bedlam
52
2
JEAN `BINTA' BREEZE
Riddym Ravings
54
3
JO HARRIS
Rave On
57
1
CECILIA GRAINGER
Chemical Escape
58
1
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
from A Season in Hell, Ravings II
59
1
DAVID GASCOYNE
The Fabulous Glass
60
1
JOHN BERRYMAN
The Song of the Demented Priest
61
1
AIDAN MURPHY
The New Arrival
61
1
ANNE SEXTON
The Starry Night
62
1
HARRY SMART
Traume, II
63
1
C.K. WILLIAMS
The Cave
64
2
DENISE JONES
The Intruders
66
1
DANIELLE HOPE
Rampton Special Hospital: Arrival
67
1
NICHOLAS LAFITTE
Therefore I Will Not Fear
67
1
ANNE SEXTON
Noon Walk on the Asylum Lawn
68
1
Ringing the Bells
69
1
DONALD JUSTICE
Counting the Mad
70
1
JOHN CLARE
I Am
71
1
IAN DUHIG
Clare's Jig #43
72
1
THOMAS BLACKBURN
Hospital for Defectives
72
1
IVOR GURNEY
To God
73
1
NICHOLAS LAFITTE
The Madman Compares God to a Great Light
74
2
NICOLA EAST
To Sleep Perchance to Dream
76
1
ANON. (RUSSIAN)
The voice goes dumb
77
1
How can I find a spark of reality
77
1
SELIMA HILL
Voices of Bulgaria
78
1
ELIZABETH BARTLETT
The Visitors
79
1
ROBERT LOWELL
Waking in the Blue
80
2
ELIZABETH JENNINGS
Night Garden of the Asylum
82
1
SELIMA HILL
The Voice of Bobo
83
1
ANGELA HART
The Happiest Woman Alive
84
1
CHRIS NERNEY
Ode to a Therapist
84
1
DAVID GASCOYNE
Orpheus in the Underworld
84
1
ROBERT COLE
From One Helpstone Man to Another
85
1
PAUL KEAN
The MIND Day Centre
86
1
BILL LEWIS
Therapy Room
87
1
CHARLES JOHNSON
We Call This the Day Room
88
1
KIT WRIGHT
The Day Room
89
5
THEODORE ROETHKE
Dolor
94
1
Heard in a Violent Ward
95
1
PATRICIA PRATT
The Prisoner
95
1
FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN
To Zimmer
96
1
MARTIN SONENBERG
Nightnurse
97
1
HARRY SMART
The Hand of God
98
1
CAROL BATTON
Not a Buttercup
99
1
PAUL HENRY
The Whispering
100
1
The Visitors
101
1
RAY WILLMOTT
Daycentre Romance
102
1
IMMA MADDOX
The game
103
1
JILL BAMBER
The Shadow-Board
103
2
HEBRON WACHENJE
Gwutt
105
1
SELIMA HILL
Speak to Me
105
1
CATH KILCOYNE
By Torchlight
106
1
CHRISTINE DOHERTY
Wrote at Drop-in Centre
107
1
MARY GUCKIAN
My Son
108
1
STEPHEN GARDNER
Autumn was a moment away
108
1
KEVIN ALLEN
I Don't Remember
109
1
WENDY FRENCH
Sky Over Bedlam
109
1
MARK JACOB
A Ward Round Postponed
109
1
LARRY BUTLER
Early Evening
110
1
ANGELA MORTON
Day Release
111
1
WELDON KEES
A Musician's Wife
112
1
KIT WRIGHT
The Man of Distinction
113
1
MARTIN BROWNLEE
On the Run from Tooting Bec Hospital
114
1
JO PESTEL
The Volunteer
115
1
SEAN O'BRIEN
Poem for a Psychiatric Conference
116
2
PETER STREET
Leaving Hospital
118
1
DERMOT HEALY
After the Silence
119
1
The New Town
120
1
CLAIRE BAYARD-WHITE
Blacker than Before
121
1
SCOTT VERNER
The Sound of My Head
122
1
Her Large Smile
123
1
JOHN HORDER
The Sick Image of My Father Fades
124
1
VALERIA MELCHIORETTO
The Cradle
125
1
MALA MASON
Survivor
126
1
PASCALE PETIT
Eisriesenwelt
126
5
LUCY COLLARD
What You Need
131
1
DES MCHALE
The Butterfly
131
1
BRUCE BARNES
Calling Back the Body
132
1
V.G. LEE
The Smile
133
1
LOUISE C. CALLAGHAN
Paquida
133
2
JOHN WELCH
Sign Writing
135
1
EZRA POUND
from Canto CXV
136
1
SUSAN GAUKROGER
A Common Cause
137
1
GARY ERNEST KAY
Mah Towing
138
1
JOHN RETY
The Kitchen Chair
139
1
FATMA DURMUSH
Mr Tosum
140
1
KEITH THORNLEY
The Grand Old Duke of York
141
1
KEN SMITH
Night at the Blind Beggar
142
1
RUTH SILCOCK
`Loss of Recent Memory'
143
1
JOSIE KILDEA
And Why Not?
144
1
W.L.
Dilemma
145
1
JOSIE KILDEA
At the Braque Exhibition
146
1
PAUL CLARK
On a Portrait of William Blake by Francis Bacon
147
1
DAVID CONSTANTINE
Clare Leaves High Beach
148
1
JON SILKIN
Death of a Son
149
2
ALLEN GINSBERG
In back of the real
151
1
DAVID GASCOYNE
Half-an-Hour
152
2
Acknowledgements
154
3
Index of Authors
157
3
The Charities
160