The Angry Summer : A Poem of 1926 Hardback
by Idris Davies
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Through the voices of ordinary people caught up in the struggle, "The Angry Summer" graphically illustrates the plight of the miners and their families during the six-month-long miners' strike of 1926 - 'the summer of soups and speeches'.
Idris Davies himself left school at the age of fourteen to become a miner and it was the strike of 1926 that forced him to look elsewhere for work.
He is perhaps the most authentic socialist poet of the inter-war years to write in English, because he speaks out of the experience of his own working-class community.
This volume presents for the first time a properly annotated edition of the poem, an introduction by Tony Conran explaining the biographical, historical and literary background, and is also illustrated with photographs, newspaper cuttings and eyewitness accounts.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:112 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:12/05/1993
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- ISBN:9780708310908
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:112 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:12/05/1993
- Category:
- ISBN:9780708310908