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The angry summer
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780708310908
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press, (12 May 1993)
- Number of Pages
- 74
- Weight
- 368 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 220 x 140 x 13 mm
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