The Brown Envelope Book
£12.00
Poetry and prose on experiences of unemployment, the benefits system, disability and work capability assessments.
Selected and edited by Alan Morrison and Kate Jay-R.
Foreword by John McArdle of the Black Triangle Campaign.
“The Brown Envelope Book ‘illustrates the cold-hearted barbarism’ of DWP”
John Pring, Disability News Service, author of The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence (2024)
“The Brown Envelope Book feels significant for the way in which it triangulates artistic expression, social experience, and the ideological underpinnings that create and contour that experience… a book so rare in its creative energy, and so profound in its political implications.”
Fran Lock, Culture Matters
“This is poetry as protest, rebellion, testament, analysis and sheer agonised pain”
Steve Spence, Litter Magazine
“Will the Minister recommend that his colleagues purchase and read the recently released e-book, The Brown Envelope Book, which contains more than 200 poems, pieces of prose and short plays about disabled people who say they have been “brutalised by the bureaucracy of the Department for Work and Pensions”?”
Steve McCabe MP
House of Commons
Hansard
17 May 2021
