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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Angry Summer
• Subtitle: A Poem of 1926
• Author: Idris Davies
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9780708310908
• ISBN: 0708310907
• ID: 04644167
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Weight: 368 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 160 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. May 1993

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