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An assured and inventive debut, The Thoughts explores different manifestations of intrusive thoughts as part of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) before navigating through the twists and turns of recovery and love. These poems inhabit therapists' treatment rooms, waiting rooms, and everyday documents, appearing in such varied forms as emails, research proposals and kids' puzzles. Compassionate and at times painfully humorous, The Thoughts is an act of advocacy, giving voice to critically underrepresented experiences of illness through poems that are as peculiar and creative as they are arresting.
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"What is so striking about this book is Barnsley's inventive and completely joyous use of form. Just flicking through it, before reading anything, it doesn't really seem like a poetry book at all. Questionnaires, draft emails, magazine articles and puzzles all leap out. 'Poem on Checks' appears as a black-and-white checkers board, and there are poems that appear as boxed therapist forms, PhD vivas
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