Touched by Madness

DescriptionBy Seth FinneganPublished: 2025Pages: 55Author DescriptionSeth Finnegan is a Devon based poet who has regularlyperformed live poetry readings at the Phoenix Arts Centrein Exeter.His poem 'Susan' won the most original piece in theLost Tower Publication competition.Other poems have been printed in various anthologies.He has written a charming series on Trees and iscurrently compiling a collection of poems called 'Backto Eden' derived from new and older works.During Covid the Nationwide Building Societywrote 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 DescriptionThe following collection of fifty poems has been born out ofmy own experience of mental illness. I was diagnosed withBi Polar disorder in my late thirties and discovered that writingabout it, and other conditions was helpful, even therapeutic.The aim of the collection is to reach and speak to people, sufferersor sane alike, giving some insights as to how these illnessesmanifest, covering a wide range of disorders that affect people inour modern world.