Touched by Madness

Description

By Seth Finnegan

Published: 2025

Pages: 55

Author Description

Seth Finnegan is a Devon based poet who has regularly

performed live poetry readings at the Phoenix Arts Centre

in Exeter.

His poem 'Susan' won the most original piece in the

Lost Tower Publication competition.

Other poems have been printed in various anthologies.

He has written a charming series on Trees and is

currently compiling a collection of poems called 'Back

to Eden' derived from new and older works.

During Covid the Nationwide Building Society

wrote to Seth for permission to showcase his patriotic poem

'Let's Pull Together.'

Seth has Bi-polar disorder and Poetry is his one great love.

Book Description

The following collection of fifty poems has been born out of

my own experience of mental illness. I was diagnosed with

Bi Polar disorder in my late thirties and discovered that writing

about it, and other conditions was helpful, even therapeutic.

The aim of the collection is to reach and speak to people, sufferers

or sane alike, giving some insights as to how these illnesses

manifest, covering a wide range of disorders that affect people in

our modern world.