A Casual Kindness : Poems by the Unbound Community

A Casual Kindness has been created by members of Unbound, the ongoing creative community of Vox Liminis, an arts and community organisation working within criminal justice.

Unbound is a community of people with diverse experience of the criminal justice system – former and serving prisoners, people on community sentences, families affected by imprisonment, artists, academics, and people who work in the criminal justice system – using their creativity and experiences to spark positive change.

The poems in A Casual Kindness were co-written in groups with the help of poet Pádraig Ó Tuama. They are poems filled with pain and delight, with tenderness, with isolation, with stories of complication, self-blame, victims’ echoes, and the complications of coming home under licences, of trying to navigate a different world, of trying to find art.

Foreword by T.S. Eliot prize winner Roger Robinson.

“These words and stories of recognition and solidarity in the face of violence – not least systemic and structural violence – raise radical questions about our ways of thinking and being together in society. ” – Alison Urie, Director, Vox Liminis

Pádraig Ó Tuama’s work as poet, broadcaster and theologian centers around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. He is a member and former leader of Corrymeela. He hosts Poetry Unbound from On Being studios and has written a book of the same title. See more at www.padraigotuama.com.