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Visiting Time

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From the inmates of Shotts prison, an accretion of voices not unlike the sounds erupting from the fiddles, flutes and guitars of musicians you might find playing in a Glasgow bar, only these disparate voices are not musical. Instead, a finely tuned array of words expressing thoughts and emotions procured from their writers time in prison: Porridge, a breakfast people make in pots./ But Im doing porridge here in SHOTTS. In one of the prose pieces, a grandfather pretends to his visiting grandson that hes a secret agent on his final mission signalling to the reader his retirement from crime; in another, there is the ongoing concern for an elderly father at home with senile dementia: ... hes ducking behind the curtain ... I dont know if I can cope with this today. Haiku and longer poetic forms capture the interminable frustration of being inside and the effect this has on the human psyche: Go off the rails/End up in the cells/Apply for bail/Application fail// Back to jail/howl and wail. One reflection on the emotional difficulty of being transgender in a system that does little to offer support adds poignancy to an anthology that is already thrumming with humour and attitude. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Nov 2019
  • Publisher: Vagabond Voices
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913212001

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