by Bob Crew ISBN: 978-1-905610-12-9 Published: 2006 Pages: Description This book of poetry provides us with a wide-ranging picture of mental health in the UK and the contribution that poetry can make to a better understanding of our mental condition and the reasons for it. There are thought provoking and healing poems here by the North London poet, Bob Crew, taking readers on a journey into the feeling parts of the unconscious mind and putting them in touch with that spiritual and immortal element that is in us all known as the human soul. But there are sociological poems too, painting a picture of mental and social disorder in Britain today. This is the poetry of ideas, with which to promote discussion and to encourage insights into mental health problems and issues. Some of these poems may very well inspire beginners to write poetry and to suggest how best they can do it - others provide food for thought for those who prefer to read rather than to write. But all of these poems provide a way of countering - if not beating - body and soul inertia. They are empowering poems that enable readers, not only to understand poetry better, but also to have clearer insights into the unconscious mind. Because these are sensitive and nakedly revealing poems, they explore the unconscious mind and how it works, whilst also providing readers with clarifying images on which to ponder. These are poems that provide interesting ideas with which to help readers to think about these tricky and intriguing matters and perhaps to respond with some enlightened poetry, thoughts or discussions of their own. They also help to unlock closed minds and let in some light. There is a poetic discourse in this book that is sufficiently wide-ranging for courses of mental health therapy to be structured over weeks or months. About the Author Bob Crew is a published author whose others books - Sea Poems, Gurkhas at War and The Beheading & Other True Stories - are currently in the bookstalls and on Amazon.
Words: body and soul

Author: Crew, B
Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Mind and Soul Poetry
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2006-07-14
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781905610129
Category: Poetry : Anthologies (multiple authors)
Category: Medical : Mental Health
Category: Psychology : Mental Health