Daniel Holmes: A Memoir From Malta's Prison: From a cage, on a rock, in a puddle... by Daniel Holmes

Author:Daniel Holmes [Holmes, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lovin Malta Ltd.
Published: 2021-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

Poetry in prison

With the support of my family I was able to enter the International Welsh Poetry Competition in 2016 and was given a Highly Commended award for placing in the top 20, out of more than 500 contributors, for my poem “Simple Beauty”.

Dave Lewis, the highly acclaimed Welsh poet, and judge of the International Welsh Poetry Competition, wrote these comments about this poem:

During my first read through of all the competition entries, this poem really caught my attention.

This poem was well crafted, without making it sound unnatural. What really grabbed me most was, as the title suggests, its “simple beauty”. “I came upon a small red flower, /I don’t know the day, or even the hour.”

The poem reached out to me and pulled me in: “Such beautiful petals covered in dew, /I convinced myself that for me it grew”. And I really, really wanted the subject matter to be real. I desperately didn’t want to find out later that the author had just imagined this sort of scenario and not directly experienced these things themselves. It all felt real to me. Authentic.

And I was moved when I found out it had been written by Daniel Holmes; a young man who has been unjustly sentenced in a Maltese prison for a minor offence. “The next day I returned but my flower was gone, /destroyed by this place, and all that is wrong.” Daniel is a talented and promising new writer, and he and his lovely family deserve our support.”

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