Rare Birds: Voices of Holloway Prison by Natalie Scott Michael Dickman demonstrate the vitality of ancient

demonstrate the vitality of ancient and modern poetic tradition

published by Bloodaxe in 2013:

those by the two British poets are debut collections first published in full in this book

 Financial Times

And for all of Blakemore's defiance

Rare Birds: Voices of Holloway Prison by Natalie Scott Michael Dickman demonstrate the vitality of ancientRare 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