Sandy Jeffs on 3CR Spoken Word

Thursday, 16 April 2015 - 9:00am to 9:30am

Sandy Jeffs on 3CR Spoken Word reading poems and in conversation with producer Ela Fornalska


Sandy Jeffs Biography

Sandy Jeffs

Sandy Jeffs was born in Ballarat and has a BA from La Trobe University. She has lived with schizophrenia and all its moods for over thirty years. She is a community educator who speaks to schools, universities and community groups about what it’s like to live with a mental illness. She has been published widely and is a prize-winning poet whose writing has been concerned with madness, domestic violence and the humorous antics of women who play midweek ladies’ tennis. Sandy lives with her friends and animals on the outskirts of Melbourne.


She is the author of the bestselling Poems from the Madhouse (1993; reprinted 2000, 2001), Loose Kangaroos (co-author, 1998), Blood Relations (2000), Confessions of a Midweek Lady: Tall Tennis Tales (2001), and The Wings of Angels: A memoir of madness (2004).

 

 

Her latest book is her autobiography, Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living With Madness (2009).

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A program dedicated to the eclectic world of poetry and performance. Guests are contemporary poets who read and discuss their works.

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