ISBN 978-1-922452-09-2
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Eluding Sylvia, Chasing Poe

A choose-your-own-adventure prose, poetry and imagery journey from inside the mind of a bipolar-disordered human. One critic said it was like Alice in Wonderland on Lithium; psychedelic yet ordinary.

The book’s written content is a collection of lyrical poems, microstories and prose with the addition of illustrations, photographs and insights in a ‘choose your own adventure’ concept. Each adventure contains a different facet of the symptoms of the Bipolar illness using role play with different mood characters. With the use of this method, it has given the power back to the reader to choose their mood. This displays the relentless lack of choice within the sufferer of the illness.

The author/artist was once a ‘New Poet’ (Friendly Street Poets, 2010) and contributor to ‘Mad, Sad Words’ (Joseph Dunn, 2006).

About the Author

Australian poet Sher’ee Furtak-Ellis has read her poetry at the International Beat Poetry Goddess Festival, National Beat Poetry Festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week and the New Voices Writers Festival. Among her awards, she was a winner of Friendly Street Poets New Poets 15 and a finalist for the Watershed Creative Prize. As well as being the author and illustrator of Eluding Sylvia, Chasing Poe, a choose-your-own-adventure illustrated poetry, prose and microstory book about her life with Bipolar Disorder, Sher’ee’s poetry and microstories have been published in the International Beat Poetry Foundation Goddess Anthology 2022: Poets Celebrating Women, New Generation Beats 2022 Anthology, Florence Poets Society Silkworm 14 Rise, Mad Sad Words, Friendly Street New Poets 15 and Divinely Align Me: How Signs from the Universe keep you on your path.