Special Edition: The Prison and the Public
Contents
Editorial Comment: The Prison and the Public
Dr Alana Barton and Dr Alyson Brown
Review of ‘The Prison and the Public’ Conference, Edge Hill University, Wednesday 27 March 2013
Holly White, Lindsey Ryan, Chris Wadsworth and Phil Williams
Chapter and Verse: The Role of Creating Writing in Reducing Re-offending
Michael Crowley
Free to Write: A Case Study in the Impact of Cultural History Research and Creative Writing Practice
Dr Tamsin Spargo and Dr Hannah Priest
Talking Justice: Building Vocal Public Support for Prison Reform
Katy Swaine Williams and Janet Crowe
Challenging Perceptions: Considering the Value of Public Opinion
Rachel Forster and Liz Knight
Repression and Revolution: Representations of Criminal Justice and Prisons in Recent Documentaries
Dr Jamie Bennett
How the Public Sphere was Privatized and Why Civil Society Could Reclaim it.
Mary S Corcoran
Artist or Offender?: Braving the Mirror
Robin Baillie
Civic Re-engagements Amongst Former Prisoners
Gill Buck
Film review: Everyday (2012)
Dr Jamie Bennett
Book Review: Critique and Dissent: An Anthology to Mark 40 Years of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control; Rethinking Social Exclusion: The End of the Social?; Criminal Justice and Neoliberalism; Why Prison?
Dr Jamie Bennett
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Wednesday, 17 July 2013
OUT NOW: Free to Write: Prison Voices Past and Present (Headland)
Foreword by Erwin James
Edited by Gareth Creer, Hannah Priest and Tamsin Spargo
Blurb:
"The Free to Write Project has demonstrated that the long, rich and resilient tradition of writing in prison is as vital and vibrant as ever. The poems and narratives withing these pages tell us of lives that are valuable and resilient." - Erwin James
Free to Write introduces new writing by prisoners as well as true stories of how writing helped men and women of the past imagine a better future after prison.
It is the outcome of a practical research project run by Liverpool John Moores University's Centre for Writing and Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History.
Essays by Tamsin Spargo, Helen Rogers, Hannah Priest and Adam Creed.
Poetry and prose from HMP Shrewsbury, HMP Frankland, HMP Styal, HMP Lancaster Farms and HMP Greenock.
Contents:
Editors’ Note by Gareth Creer, Hannah Priest and Tamsin Spargo
Foreword by Erwin James
Free to Learn? Reading and Writing in the Early Nineteenth-Century Prison by Helen Rogers
Mountain Bughouse 216: One Prisoner's Writing as Protest and Escape by Tamsin Spargo
Free to Write: Prison Voices by Hannah Priest
Prison Voices: Present (Poetry and prose from HMP Shrewsbury, HMP Frankland, HMP Styal, HMP Lancaster Farms and HMP Greenock with commentary by Adam Creed)
For more information about the book, please contact the publisher.
Edited by Gareth Creer, Hannah Priest and Tamsin Spargo
Blurb:
"The Free to Write Project has demonstrated that the long, rich and resilient tradition of writing in prison is as vital and vibrant as ever. The poems and narratives withing these pages tell us of lives that are valuable and resilient." - Erwin James
Free to Write introduces new writing by prisoners as well as true stories of how writing helped men and women of the past imagine a better future after prison.
It is the outcome of a practical research project run by Liverpool John Moores University's Centre for Writing and Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History.
Essays by Tamsin Spargo, Helen Rogers, Hannah Priest and Adam Creed.
Poetry and prose from HMP Shrewsbury, HMP Frankland, HMP Styal, HMP Lancaster Farms and HMP Greenock.
Contents:
Editors’ Note by Gareth Creer, Hannah Priest and Tamsin Spargo
Foreword by Erwin James
Free to Learn? Reading and Writing in the Early Nineteenth-Century Prison by Helen Rogers
Mountain Bughouse 216: One Prisoner's Writing as Protest and Escape by Tamsin Spargo
Free to Write: Prison Voices by Hannah Priest
Prison Voices: Present (Poetry and prose from HMP Shrewsbury, HMP Frankland, HMP Styal, HMP Lancaster Farms and HMP Greenock with commentary by Adam Creed)
For more information about the book, please contact the publisher.
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