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=Survivor's Poetry= Survivors’ Poetry is a London-based national arts charity that is part of the psychiatric survivors movement. The organisation works to support, promote and publish the poetry of people who have been through, or are currently in, the UK’s mental health system. The organisation works with ‘survivors’ of psychiatric illness, drug addiction, sexual abuse, and mood-altering medication. Many of their clients have experienced the dark end of life in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, rehabilitation units, or counselling centres; all are trying hard to get their lives back together again.

History
Survivors’ Poetry was founded in 1991 by four poets who themselves had first-hand experience of the mental health system. The majority of the staff, volunteer helpers, advisors, and trustees come from a survivor background. This fact puts the organisation in a unique position to act on its vision of a society in which survivors can work towards emotional and mental stability through self-expression. Survivors’ Poetry actively supports and promotes the sheer linguistic talent that many survivors bring to their insight into their own condition and that of others.

==Publications==