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The green bell / Paula Keogh.
Publication details: South Melbourne, Victoria : Affirm Press, 2017.Description: 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925475524 (paperback)
- Green bell : a memoir of love, madness & poetry
- Dransfield, Michael, 1948-1973 -- Mental health
- Keogh, Paula -- Mental health
- Dransfield, Michael, 1948-1973
- Keogh, Paula
- Mental illness -- Biography
- Psychiatry -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra
- Psychiatry -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.)
- Poets, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography
- Drug addiction
- Depression, Mental
- Love
- Mentally ill -- Biography
- 616.800922 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 616.8 KEO | Available | 066203 |
Total reserves: 0
"A memoir of love, madness & poetry" --cover.
It's 1972 in Canberra. Michael Dransfield is being treated for a drug addiction; Paula Keogh is delusional and grief-stricken. They meet in a psychiatric unit of the Canberra Hospital and instantly fall in love. Paula recovers a self that she thought was lost; Michael, a radical poet, is caught up in a rush of creative energy and writes poems that become The Second Month of Spring. Together, they plan for ?a wedding, marriage, kids ? the whole trip?. But outside the hospital walls, madness, grief and drugs challenge their luminous dream. Can their love survive?
