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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. Review “ . . . splendidly illustrated and carefully edited . . . ” – Poetry Wales ( Poetry Wales ) “'Idris Davies is a legend in our literature and The Angry Summer a milestone . . .” – Bulletin of the Welsh Academy ( Bulletin of the Welsh Academy ) “ . . . Tony Conran's informative commentary goes way beyond what is strictly necessary for comprehension, and makes fascinati

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Author

Davies, Idris; Conran, Anthony

Publisher

University of Wales Press; Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780708310908

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities