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'This brilliant, inspiring collection not only illuminates the richness and variety of human pain, sexuality and embodiment better than any clinical text, but also shows us what language is for. Rather than labelling and imposing psychiatric categories, words here give a voice to each person's experience, challenging and questioning what we are supposed to feel, say and be.' --Darian Leader 'A brave and vital anthology by some of this country's most exciting voices.' --Rae Earl 'A vital anthology with too many constellations of brilliant poets and poems to pick out individuals; these are important poems of witness, to one's own body and mind, to institutions, to society which is failing those who need it most. Ultimately, there is a hope here, whatever the body has endured, whatever the mind has seen, there is still poetry where things might be reported or made sense of, or redeemed.' --Andrew McMillan 'Packed full of the greatest poetic minds you could ever wish to read, in a moment of need. Anything with Byron Vincent AND Lemn Sissay is a collection worth keeping close.' --Jack Rooke 'The Dizziness of Freedom is a thought-provoking and challenging take on mental health conditions. It approaches the subject with honesty, providing an important contribution to challenging the stigma around mental health.' --Barbara Keeley, Shadow Cabinet Minister for Social Care and Mental Health

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Amy Acre is a poet, performer and freelance writer. Her pamphlet, Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads (flipped eye, 2015), was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and as a Poetry School Best Book. She has performed at Latitude, Secret Garden Party and the Edinburgh Fringe, Southbank and the Houses of Parliament, and featured in publications including Poetry London, Poetry Review, Magma, 3: AM and POEM International: Women On Brexit. She is the editor of Bad Betty Press, shortlisted for Most Innovative Publisher in the 2018 Saboteur Awards. Jake Wild Hall is one half of Bad Betty Press, the host of Boomerang Club and PBH's 2016 Spirit Of The Free Fringe. His work has appeared in the London Spoken Word Anthology (GUG Press, 2016) and in online magazine, I am not a silent poet. His debut pamphlet, Solomon's World (Bad Betty Press, 2017), was longlisted for Best Pamphlet in the 2018 Saboteur Awards.

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