Penned In Prison Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Prison Epistles. St. Paul,
Imprisoned in the town of Caesarea.

Le Morte d'Arthur. Malory,
Imprisoned in the Marshalsea prison
Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan
12 years' imprisonment. Bedford County Gaol,

Don Quixote. Cervantes
Captured by Ottoman pirates
Enslaved in Algiers

The Travels of Marco Polo. Rustichello da Pisa
Prisoner in Genoa

The Prince, Machiavelli
Arrested, tortured, imprisoned
By the Medici

History of the World Sir Walter Raleigh
13 years, held in the Tower of London.

To Althea from Prison Lovelace
"Stone walls doe not a prison make
nor iron bars a cage."
Prisoner in Gatehouse Prison

Justine the Marquis de Sade
Imprisoned in the Bastille
Sent by Napoleon to an insane asylum

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, autobiography
Imprisoned on St. Helena
Three weeks before his death, "I die before my time,
Murdered by the English oligarchy and its assassin."

De Profundis.Wilde.
Two years hard labour in Reading Gaol.

The Story of My Experiments with Truth Gandhi
Served time in Yerwada Jail.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
Eight years forced labour in a Siberian camp.

The Enormous Room (e.e. cummings) :
Held in a POW camp, the Dépôt de Triage

Letters from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr
11 days in the Alabama jail

Soul on Ice. Cleaver
Folsom State Prison and San Quentin,

Conversations with Myself Mandela
27 years in prison on Robben Island,
Pollsmoor Prison, Victor Verster Prison.

Our Lady of the Flowers. Genet
'I have made myself a soul to fit my dwelling.
My cell is so sweet.' Fresnes prison, France

The House of the Dead, Dostoyevsky
Four years in exile in a Siberian labour camp

A roll call of suffering
A roll call of writing
A roll call of writing
Out of suffering