The angry summer : a poem of 1926 / Idris Davies.
The angry summer : a poem of 1926 / Idris Davies.
By
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Davies, Idris.
Publication Date
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1993
Publication Information
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London : Faber and Faber Limited,
Physical Description
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56 p.
Subject Term
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General strikes.
Poetry.
Geographic Term
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Great Britain.
Additional Contributors
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Conran, Anthony.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).
Summary
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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.
Language
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English
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 821.912 D28 | Checked In |