Description - Postcards from the Asylum by Karen Knight
Postcards from the Asylum won the Arts ACT 2007 Alec Bolton Award for an unpublished manuscript. These poems arise from Knight's experiences as an inmate at the Royal Derwent Psychiatric Hospital in 1969. John Foulcher says of this collection: Karen Knight's writing is insistent, vivid and brutal in its objective description of a devastating experience. Most striking in this compelling collection is Knight's unique gift for imagery that feels both surreal and intensely actual. This is poetry that stares down the reader, that refuses the easy gesture, that never approaches self-indulgence or self-pity. It invites favourite comparison with Robert Lowell's cold, confronting reflections on the experience of being institutionalised. Knight's Postcards from the Asylum is not merely a welcome addition to Australian poetry, it feels like a necessary one.
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