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Scott Natalie - Rare Birds Voices Of Holloway Prison - Paperback
Scott Natalie - Rare Birds Voices Of Holloway Prison - Paperback
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Description: Rare Birds creatively re - imagines the rich and gripping story of Holloway Prison through the voices of prisoners staff and others connected to its history in order to explore some of the injustices of the penal system during its first hundred years. Natalie Scott's meticulously researched moving and lyrical poems bring to life well - known voices such as Ruth Ellis Sylvia Pankhurst Emily Wilding Davison and Edith Thompson plus a host of lesser - known names to tell Holloway's story in a truly unique and fascinating way. Hear inmates at their most vulnerable moments: Ruth Ellis in the last few minutes as she stands at the scaffold describing her executioner; Edith Thompson believing she will be given a stay due to her pregnancy; Selina Salter on her return to prison after being recorded as a lunatic. Join in with rousing suffragette songs composed whilst in prison; hear the testimonies of hunger strikes and forcible feeding; and learn about the shocking differences in treatment shown towards 1st and 3rd division inmates. Despite Holloway Prison's notoriety as a women's prison the poems voice women in roles other than that of criminal: there are social campaigners comrades as well as sisters daughters mothers wives lovers and companions. The collection explores many topics which are still just as relevant today: human rights gender sexuality mental illness and socio - economic status with some of the problems women faced in the 19th century being not so different from the issues they face now.
Title: Rare Birds Voices Of Holloway Prison
Author(s): Scott Natalie
Publisher: Valley Press
Barcode: 9781912436255
Pages: 146 Pages
Publication Date: 3/8/2020
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
Description: Rare Birds creatively re - imagines the rich and gripping story of Holloway Prison through the voices of prisoners staff and others connected to its history in order to explore some of the injustices of the penal system during its first hundred years. Natalie Scott's meticulously researched moving and lyrical poems bring to life well - known voices such as Ruth Ellis Sylvia Pankhurst Emily Wilding Davison and Edith Thompson plus a host of lesser - known names to tell Holloway's story in a truly unique and fascinating way. Hear inmates at their most vulnerable moments: Ruth Ellis in the last few minutes as she stands at the scaffold describing her executioner; Edith Thompson believing she will be given a stay due to her pregnancy; Selina Salter on her return to prison after being recorded as a lunatic. Join in with rousing suffragette songs composed whilst in prison; hear the testimonies of hunger strikes and forcible feeding; and learn about the shocking differences in treatment shown towards 1st and 3rd division inmates. Despite Holloway Prison's notoriety as a women's prison the poems voice women in roles other than that of criminal: there are social campaigners comrades as well as sisters daughters mothers wives lovers and companions. The collection explores many topics which are still just as relevant today: human rights gender sexuality mental illness and socio - economic status with some of the problems women faced in the 19th century being not so different from the issues they face now.
Title: Rare Birds Voices Of Holloway Prison
Author(s): Scott Natalie
Publisher: Valley Press
Barcode: 9781912436255
Pages: 146 Pages
Publication Date: 3/8/2020
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets
