Hardcover, FINE/FINE, endpapers by Jim Curran, a prisoner serving a life sentence in Wormwood Scrubs, 237 pp. 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. Smith developed a close relationship with several of the prisoners, one of whom, 'Dave Wait', emerged as a very talented writer. One section of Inside Time - 'Living in My Head' is by him. This book illuminates prison life in a way that no book has ever done before in this country.

Prisoners, Wormwood Scrubs,