Publisher's Synopsis
As writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison, Ken Smith spent two years working with lifers, time-servers and ne'er do wells: desperate men shut in on themselves, burying their remorse and guilt, or boasting their murders. These poems were written at that time. Wormwood reports from the frontline of society's 'battlefield within': the frontier between the haves and have-nots at the edge of coping, the edge of violence. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
