ISBN 978-1-909404-13-7. Pamphlet collection 44 pages.
Beverley Ferguson’s brave, well-crafted poems explore identity and mental illness with honesty and courage. The poem ‘Illness’ won first prize in the Poetry Space competition.
To simply call these poems brave and honest does fail to do them justice. Ferguson’s poetry is controlled and well crafted, deeply personal yet wonderfully open and fiercely impressive. A book of inner landscapes that dares the reader to delve further to reveal a greater understanding of the complexities of mental illness and beyond.
Eileen Carney Hulme
Disturbing, courageous rough diamonds, these tough-talking poems.
Gill McEvoy
Sample poem
In the Beginning
— Beverley Ferguson 2014
That night I slept as a single laid out on a bedin a ward filled with the presence of strangers.So much strangeness. You came home that dayto a folded slip of paper lying by the front door.This was the start of their many coded messagesyou would try to decipher, keep on trying and fail.My colleagues who had been trained in psychic painflocked away far enough from their fear of catchingmy madness. It could be their madness lying there.Friends who live now in my heart prayed for all of ustheir words forming cloud nets in other dimensions.Professionals found their way into my secret tunnelscrawling through breath squeezing spaces, not too farin case they’d never come back. This was the beginning.
