Touched by Madness

<h2><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Description</span></h2><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>By Seth Finnegan</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Published: </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>2025</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Pages: </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>55</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Author Description</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Seth Finnegan is a Devon based poet who has regularly</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>performed live poetry readings at the Phoenix Arts Centre</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>in Exeter.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>His poem 'Susan' won the most original piece in the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Lost Tower Publication competition.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Other poems have been printed in various anthologies.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>He has written a charming series on Trees and is</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>currently compiling a collection of poems called 'Back</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>to Eden' derived from new and older works.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>During Covid the Nationwide Building Society</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>wrote to Seth for permission to showcase his patriotic poem</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'Let's Pull Together.'</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Seth has Bi-polar disorder and Poetry is his one great love.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Book Description</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The following collection of fifty poems has been born out of</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>my own experience of mental illness. I was diagnosed with</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Bi Polar disorder in my late thirties and discovered that writing</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>about it and other conditions was helpful even therapeutic.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The aim of the collection is to reach and speak to people sufferers</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>or sane alike giving some insights as to how these illnesses</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>manifest covering a wide range of disorders that affect people in</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>our modern world.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p></p>