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The daily poem

Pat Arrowsmith
Tuesday 15 February 1994 00:02 GMT
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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Prison Reform

Pat Arrowsmith has worked full-time in the peace movement and has been on the staff of Amnesty International, where she is assistant editor. She has been a political prisoner 11 times and was twice adopted by Amnesty as a prisoner of conscience. This poem was written in 1974 in Holloway Prison and now appears in Nine Lives published by Brentham Press at pounds 3.95.

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