{"product_id":"9781913212001","title":"Visiting Time","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Ennis, Stewart, Authors, Various \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 January 1800 by Vagabond Voices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 170 pages\u003cbr\u003e142 x 210 x 21 | 208g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the inmates of Shotts prison, an accretion of voices not unlike the sounds erupting from the fiddles, flutes and guitarsof musicians you might find playing in a Glasgow bar, only these disparate voices are not musical. Instead, a finely tuned arrayof words expressing thoughts and emotions procured from their writers' time in prison: 'Porridge, a breakfast people make in pots.\/ But I'm doing porridge here in SHOTTS.' In one of the prose pieces, a grandfather pretends to his visiting grandson that he's a secret agent on his final mission signalling to the reader his retirement from crime; in another, there is the ongoing concern for an elderly father at home with senile dementia: '... he's ducking behind the curtain ... I don't know if I can cope with this today.' Haiku and longer poetic forms capture the interminable frustration of being inside and the effect this has on the human psyche: 'Go off the rails\/End up in the cells\/Apply for bail\/Application fail\/\/ Back to jail\/howl and wail.' One reflection on the emotional difficulty of being transgender in a system that does little to offer support adds poignancy to an anthology that is already thrumming with humour and attitude.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925463499011,"sku":"9781913212001","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781913212001.jpg?v=1731417709","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781913212001","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}