Stir (2020) is a collection of poems and a short essay that were written while I was the research associate on the Distant Voices project (2017-2021). These poems reflect on my experience of doing ethnographic research in carceral spaces, written from the perspective of an outsider with a pass that allowed access for a limited time only. Most of the poems were first shared as a weekly TinyLetter email in the summer of 2020 during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic ‘lockdown’. A journal article based on the essay in the collection was published in Crime Media Culture (2020). It is available open access here.
Text: Phil Crockett Thomas
Cover Design: Nat Walpole, risoprinted at Sunday’s
Typesetting: Ryan Vance
This work was supported using public funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (Ref: ES/P002536/1).
This pamphlet is free to download, share, and copy for noncommercial purposes with an open-access licence (CC BY-NC 3.0)
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Alternatively, print copies are available for £3 from the independent bookstores Good Press and TACO! Author profits will go to Vox Liminis who partnered in the Distant Voices project.
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