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Poems From Hotel Middlemore
Paperback Edition: 1
Poems from Hotel Middlemore, Michael Morrissey's 23rd book and his 12th book of poetry, casts a wry but compassionate eye on life in a New Zealand psychiatric ward:
'I'm in the best hotel in the world / grandest view / hot and cold running /
but it's a psychiatric ward / everyone mad except me / and I too am mad / as a butchered snake / ramraided by delusion / I have bipolar disorder which comes / and goes / of its own free will.'
In Hotel Middlemore, 'the smallest country on earth / tinier than the Vatican / yet more secure', Michael Morrissey, 'God's blue astronaut / lonely butunafraid', takes us on a journey from a psychiatric ward to 'beyond infinity / and back again'.
Featured in the 14 June 2018 New Zealand newsletter.
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Pages : 37
Publisher : Cold Hub Press
Publication date : 2018-06-25
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, NZ Poetry, Poetry, NZ Poetry By Individual Poets, Poetry By Individual Poets