Madness Belongs to the People

By Jody Chan

"madness resists mastery yet, to attenuate the violence / of a colonial system"

With gentle fervour and precise language that speaks to the nonverbal, the gestural, the sonic, Jody Chan's third collection of poetry mobilizes the intimate, the historical, the revolutionary, and the mundane to confront the instrumentalization of disability as a surplus class. Chan's multidisciplinary poems are a lyrical account of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist psychiatric survivor- and patient-led movements, from Germany to Japan. This is an investigation of madness as resistance, in which we experience "listening as a form of touch," and the future as a change of form.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771316829
• ISBN13: 9781771316828
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Brick Books
• Length: 144 Pages