(In WitSlings participants choose one line of Shakespeare for a presented text, in this case a small section of Venus & Adonis, and are given three minutes in which to write four to six lines of original verse in iambic pentameter (five stress lines). Please note that all of the following offender samples were written by school-leavers, entirely separately. The verses below were unified only by the lines of the Bard by which they were inspired which you will find underscored in the examples noted below. It was particularly wonderful to witness that after our first session at HMP (Her Majesty’s Prison) Woodhill with fourteen inmates, we had a subscription of twenty nine residents for our second sojurn. One officer, Christine, said she had never seen so large a list.)