the therapeutic value of poetry

'I have a growing sense that through the long years of rehabilitation, it has been Jayne's poetry, her thoughts and words, which have revived and sustained us, reminding  us of her talents and skills, her promise, her capacity for humour and irony, her never-give-up attitude. No amount of ranging of limbs or other standard rehabilitation practices has come anywhere as near to bringing the new and the old Jayne together as her poetry has.'

Helen Sage, 2013, A flower between the cracks: A memoir of love, hope and disability, Affirm Press, South Melbourne.