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.
| ISBN: | 9780708310908 |
| Publication date: | 12th May 1993 |
| Author: | Idris Davies |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 74 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |