Saxby Pridmore has been one of Tasmania’s leading psychiatrists since 1981, when he and a colleague became the first psychiatrists whose specialist training had been fully conducted in Tasmania. He was Director of Psychiatry at Royal Hobart Hospital for ten years from 1993, and is now Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Tasmania. He is also a poet, whose work has appeared in Quadrant and other publications over the past thirty years and was collected in his fine book White-Out in 2016. As with his poetry, his prose style is plain and punchy. He has written or co-written hundreds…