In November 2013 we sent dictionaries for prizes to the poetry slam at HMP Pentonville London.
Dorigen Hammond of Writers in Prison licited great work. The judges – who performed too – were the brilliant Chris Preddie and Joelle Taylor. The winner was the extraordinary Chanel. The slam coincided with the publication of Inside Poetry: Voices from Prison Volume 5, and as Rachel Billington, the editor, writes “Their voices fly with their message over barbed wire and high walls to freedom.”