Rare Birds: Voices of Holloway Prison by Natalie Scott Zoë Brigley The country’s national poets

The country’s national poets

these poems attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language as it’s spoken as well as how it’s thought: fresh

is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection'

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Rare Birds: Voices of Holloway Prison by Natalie Scott Zoë Brigley The country’s national poetsRare Birds creatively re imagines the story of Holloway Prisons first one hundred years 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 this period. Natalie Scott's meticulously researched, moving and lyrical poems bring to life well known voices such as Ruth Ellis, Sylvia Pankhurst, Albert Pierrepoint, Emily Wilding Davison and Edith Thompson, plus a