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Surviving Stevenage is a brief history of Stevenage Survivors Poetry group. The group was created in 2000 by Darren Messenger and Roy Birch, to, as the group’s mission statement says, “employ poetry in all its forms to assist survivors of mental distress to survive more adequately.” The chapter tells the story of the group’s evolution; its successes and failures; gives examples of the work of group members past and present, and expresses what they feel about the group and its effect upon the canon of survivor literature and its therapeutic use locally.
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If you liked this by Stevenage Survivors, and are interested in reading more about arts and performance, we recommend we recommend Chap. 7 “Scenes and Encounters, Bodies and Abilities: Devising Performance with Cyrff Ystwyth” by Margaret Ames and Chap. 8, “Artistic Therapeutic Treatment, Colonialism & Spectacle: A Brazilian Tale” by Marta Simões Peres, Francine Albiero de Camargo, José Otávio P. e Silva, and Pamela Block. If you are interested in reading more about survivor action for psychiatric rights and policy, we recommend Chap. 16 “Beyond Policy – A Real Life Journey of Engagement and Involvement” by Stephanie de la Haye.
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Birch, R. et al. (2016). Surviving Stevenage. In: Block, P., Kasnitz, D., Nishida, A., Pollard, N. (eds) Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9984-3_23
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