Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
113. Dalton Harrison. The poet talks about being a trans man in the english prison system.
David first had the pleasure of meeting Dalton when visiting Ripon House, an exceptional approved premises for women in Leeds. Dalton had left the hostel some time earlier but returned to share some of his experiences with me and my colleagues. Dalton Harrison is the founder of StandFast Productions (a collective of ex-offenders who use art and performance to tell their stories) and has worked as a teaching assistant with the Inside-Out Project at Durham University.
Dalton has written articles for Inside Time, Pink News and Sister Magazine x TGN, and has delivered poetry workshops alongside Durham book. He has performed at Leeds Poetry Festival s. He continues to take talks on prison issues using poetry across the country. His poetry has been published in the award-winning anthology Bloody Amazing and TransVerse II: No Time For Silence. The book The Boy Behind the Wall is his first solo collection.
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