Documentary 

for the women in Styal 

 

State of the art equipment, 

captures every angle… 

 

well, 

 

we won’t miss a shot, 

on permanent view, 

an instituted chorus, 

 

‘What roots in bone must bloom on skin’; 

 

working over old ground, 

with improvised tools, 

flowers so vivid, 

they hurt. 

 

Those cameras must have cost thousands. 

In here, it’s cutlery that counts. 

from 'the remote' (Waterloo Press, 2013) © Maggie Sullivan 2013, used by permission of the author.

Born in Islington in north London, the premature death of her mother just before Sullivan’s 7th birthday necessitated her ...

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