Notes from the Ward is Steffi Tad-y's new collection of poetry exploring bipolar disorder and psychotic break through lived experience and a poet's eye. It is breathtakingly truthful and disarmingly direct, a powerful intervention into a diagnosis that remains more medicalized and sensationalized than understood.
“Tad-y’s stylistic choices throughout Notes from the Ward speak of thoughtful intention and control…offers an inside view of a psychological journey that mostly steers clear of the trauma narrative, choosing instead to share sensitive observation in a spirit of connectedness.” - Dawn Macdonald, Seaboard review of books
