The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926

✍ Scribed by Davies, Idris; Conran, Anthony

• Book ID: 110276381
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 686 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780708310908

✦ 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.

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 fascinating reading in itself.” – New Welsh Review

(New Welsh Review )