Magnolia Graffiti is my twelfth book, but the first which deals directly with my own experience of being wrongfully convicted. Panopticon, my first anthology of poems, and published in 2025, concerned similar topics but in a lyrical rather than descriptively narrative form; and many of my paintings since conviction have referenced the whole system. All these expressions could be defined as Innocence Art. In 2018, at the height of the #MeToo movement, I was convicted and sente

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