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2016/11/04: Dangerous Asylums at The Carriageworks in Denbigh

Speakers and guests at the Carriageworks, Denbigh, 4th
November

4th November 2016: Tea and cake, two songs by Elaine Walker, readings by the contributors, and a supportive and deeply appreciative audience marked a celebration of Dangerous Asylums, an anthology of stories from Denbigh Mental Hospital, in Denbigh itself. The anthology, for sale on Amazon and Gwales, has garnered its first customer review, and by agreement of the contributors, all profits will support the work of MIND.

Poster for Dangerous Asylums reading in
Denbigh

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READING AND DISCUSSION
Friday 4th November
6pm, The Carriageworks, Denbigh Dangerous Asylums: Stories from Denbigh Mental Hospital Told by Leading Welsh Writers Glenda Beagan, Carys Bray, A. L. Reynolds, Manon Steffan Ros, Simon Thirsk, Elaine Walker, Gee and David Williams.
Contributing editor: Rob Mimpriss Published by North Wales Mental Health Research Project, Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor 'In this exemplary collaboration between medical science and imagination, lives preserved in official records, in the language and diagnoses of their times, are restored not just to light, but to humanity and equality. This anthology is a resurrection.' Philip Gross.

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Books by Rob Mimpriss

Pugnacious Little Trolls

‘freely and fiercely inventive short stories… supercharged with ideas.’

Jon Gower, Nation Cymru

Prayer at the End: Twenty-Three Stories

‘heaving with loss, regret and familial bonds.’

Annexe Magazine

For His Warriors: Thirty Stories

‘sketched with a depth and sureness of touch which makes them memorable and haunting.’

Caroline Clark, gwales.com

Reasoning: Twenty Stories

‘dark, complex, pensively eloquent’

Sophie Baggott, New Welsh Review

The Sleeping Bard: Three Nightmare Visions of the World, of Death, and of Hell

Translated by T. Gwynn Jones, with an introduction by Rob Mimpriss.

A Book of Three Birds

‘Lucid, skilful, and above all, of enormous timely significance.’

Jim Perrin

Dangerous Asylums

‘In this exemplary collaboration between medical science and imagination, lives preserved in official records, in the language and diagnoses of their times, are restored not just to light, but to humanity and equality. This anthology is a resurrection.’

Philip Gross