Ken Smith with Dave Wait (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good condition book and DJ not price clipped. 237 pages good and clean with clear print. No foxing, no previous inscriptions, no scribbles, no previous names. 'Outside, I began to see faces that I thought were inside, and vice versa. At the beginning, I had dreamed of the hive. I was trapped inside a great sealed beehive, with all the bees, and none of them able to get out, and all of them angry.' Inside Time is a ground-breaking book about what life is really like behind bars. In 1985, the poet Ken Smith was invited to spend two years as Writer-in-Residence at Wormwood SCrubs prison. His brief was to encourage prisoners to express their condition and their feelings in words.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. A ground-breaking book about what life is really like behind bars. In 1985, the poet Ken Smith was invited to spend 2yrs. as Writer-in-Residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison. His brief was to encourage prisoners to express their condition and their feelings in words. Smith developed a close relationship with several of the prisoners, one of whom 'Dave Wait', emerged as a very talented writer. One section of the book - 'Living in My Head' - is by him. For the most part, the book describes, in a painfully honest and unsentimental way, the life of prisoners from those on remand to those serving life sentences. Includes Jeremy Bamber and Paul Hill. With Glossary. 237pp. 8vo. h/back. With signs of b/plate removal from fpd o/w Vg+ in Vg+ dw.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Hardback. A ground-breaking book about what life is really like behind bars. In 1985, the poet Ken Smith was invited to spend 2yrs. as Writer-in-Residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison. His brief was to encourage prisoners to express their condition and their feelings in words. Smith developed a close relationship with several of the prisoners, one of whom 'Dave Wait', emerged as a very talented writer. One section of the book - 'Living in My Head' - is by him. For the most part, the book describes, in a painfully honest and unsentimental way, the life of prisoners from those on remand to those serving life sentences. Includes Jeremy Bamber and Paul Hill. With Glossary. 237pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Includes loosely inserted HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY SIR STEPHEN TUMIN, an English Judge who was H.M. Inspector of Prisons, covering England, Wales, Northern Ireland and British West Indies, from 1987 to 1995. Lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. in F. dw.