2001, ISBN: 0947561234

[EAN: 9780947561239], Used, good, [SC: 4.0], [PU: Oxford: Round Robin Press], First edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 150 copies. "Mister Tate this is Imma / What does one do to hang … mais…

[EAN: 9780947561239], Used, good, [SC: 4.0], [PU: Oxford: Round Robin Press], First edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 150 copies. "Mister Tate this is Imma / What does one do to hang a picture in your gallery?" "I am a Maudsley babe," wrote Imma Maddox in "Schizzy", extracts from an unpublished memoir printed in Poetry Express 18 (2003). "After a breakdown at Oxford [where she was reading PPE] in 1974-5, I ended up at the Villa in the Maudsley Hospital. In Occupational Therapy I made a ball-gown to wear at the May Ball at Oxford. By the time I got back to Oxford I had grown a good six sizes bigger because of the medication. I never went to a May Ball." Imma Maddox was born Joanna Maddox in 1955, the daughter of (Sir) John Maddox, future Editor of Nature (1966-75, 1980-95), and his first wife Nancy, who died in 1960. Her cool realisation of her predicament as a schizophrenic, and her difficulties in performing as an artist in the conventional world, is immediately disarming. Helped notably by Sister Benedicta of All Saints' Convent, Oxford, and Sister Dorothy Bell, Principal of Digby Stuart College, Roehampton, where she learned to weave, Maddox contrived a modus vivendi, and set up home in Camberwell, south London. Her articulacy and gift for the telling image have made her a persuasive spokesman for the mentally ill., Books<

2001, ISBN: 0947561234

[EAN: 9780947561239], Used, good, [PU: Oxford: Round Robin Press], First edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 150 copies. "Mister Tate this is Imma / What does one do to hang a picture i… mais…

[EAN: 9780947561239], Used, good, [PU: Oxford: Round Robin Press], First edition. Wrappers. Edition limited to 150 copies. "Mister Tate this is Imma / What does one do to hang a picture in your gallery?" "I am a Maudsley babe," wrote Imma Maddox in "Schizzy", extracts from an unpublished memoir printed in Poetry Express 18 (2003). "After a breakdown at Oxford [where she was reading PPE] in 1974-5, I ended up at the Villa in the Maudsley Hospital. In Occupational Therapy I made a ball-gown to wear at the May Ball at Oxford. By the time I got back to Oxford I had grown a good six sizes bigger because of the medication. I never went to a May Ball." Imma Maddox was born Joanna Maddox in 1955, the daughter of (Sir) John Maddox, future Editor of Nature (1966-75, 1980-95), and his first wife Nancy, who died in 1960. Her cool realisation of her predicament as a schizophrenic, and her difficulties in performing as an artist in the conventional world, is immediately disarming. Helped notably by Sister Benedicta of All Saints' Convent, Oxford, and Sister Dorothy Bell, Principal of Digby Stuart College, Roehampton, where she learned to weave, Maddox contrived a modus vivendi, and set up home in Camberwell, south London. Her articulacy and gift for the telling image have made her a persuasive spokesman for the mentally ill., Books<