This is a very rare book indeed, called Six Bullets. The title is taken from a poem by Paul Daly. The book is the work of The Fairfield Writers and David R. Morgan.
Creative writing gave patients at Fairfield Hospital in the 1980’s a chance to put their thoughts down in the form of poetry. Some poems highlight the sad side of being in a large mental health institution and others show a positive side, each writer telling their own story in poetry form. This was later to be a Channel 4 TV special titled Out Of Minds and broadcast on the 3rd October 1986.
Marguerite Muller's book forward is reproduced below.
Below are reproduced a selection of the poems from the book Six Bullets. The poems give an insight into the patients' minds and their thoughts on Fairfield and their lives not only in the hospital but life in general.
