Stretch Michael BlackburnTrue Crime writer Stephen Wade tells the stories of some of the men he has met in prison: cons and screws, librarians and Listeners, ex squaddies and Storybook Dads. An outsider on the Inside, he tries to explore the psychic geography of a world of rage, hatred, loneliness and boredom in Reception, on the landings, in the gym and down the Block. Stretch is a book about seductive dreams and wrong decisions, heroin and sadness, resolutions, resignation
the online critical journal Poetics
Ovid had just described crossing in the poem I was translating
whose participation is now a regular feature of the festival
lock picking and Californian ladybirds
to allow light to fall on the object
Born in Bridgend
“Durham Cathedral was a massive inspiration
Along with his best friend Cally Rascal
The book includes an Introduction
Katja Perat
Sometimes he is not so tough after all
as they tell moving and universal stories of love and loss
