The Glass Staircase

This is a remarkable and innovative
book which uses poetry and journal
extracts to create a narrative of
mother-daughter experience through
a time of crisis and recovery.
The Glass Staircase
with foreword by 

Professor Patrick McGorry, AO
RRP $20.00 + Postage
These are poems of great love and caring, of self-abnegation, witnessing mental illness, working with Professor Patrick McGorry’s inspirational EPPIC (Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre), experiencing the instability which is figured as a glass staircase, and depicting the analogy of necessary hospitalization with the refugee experience, multicultural Hungarian culture, and a range of mythical references. The poetry is passionate and insightful, owing much to lived events and the power of human recovery.
It is quintessentially Australian and feminine – a trenchant retelling of a wrenching and educative journey. An important and
accessible work, this book can be recommended to poets, to teachers, to parents, and to troubled teens.
“The book has flair and style, but also runs deep in raw emotion... the loved-one’s pain is palpable, and held in a direct flow of words...”  Dr Geoffrey Campbell
“This book should be on the course for university students of Psychology, and should be placed on the Reading List for Senior High School English classes.” Greta Jungwirth
“Throughout that difficult journey, in the most fearful times, the mother turns towards music and nature – plants, birds and animals.  A number of beautiful poems convey the mother’s connection with the Earth. In one of them she says, her wealth is ‘the gift of fellow creatures.”
Dr Barbara Orlowska Westwood
“... expressive and gracious in a visual, oral and aural dimension – enjoyable and engaging, relating to us intimately, awakening in the reader a renewal of hope...” Phil Constan