Three Insane Poets

David Rollins has now written several books for children and remains a loving Haiku poet. Having previously been a lunatic, care manager, social worker, library assistant and child there's a fair few books and poems left to write.  

David Parkin is an author, theatre maker, musician and installation artist. His work is fiercely biographical, weird and wonderful, sublime and speculative, from his (award nominated) children's book and musical 'The Nose That Nobody Picked' to 'David Parkin's Delusions of Grandeur', an installation looking at the four months he spent under section, suffering from a bipolar manic episode.  

Whatever the medium, his work is always thoughtful, moving and funny.  

Julie first began writing poetry during a manic phrase of bipolar in 2018. These were published the following year in her first book “Journey of the Mad”. Through poetry she describes the heights and depths of bipolar and her spiritual beliefs, which have their roots in the highs of this condition. She also includes a few supernatural experience’s, although at times creepy, have offered her hope and an interest in a plane of existence, after death.