Collier Laddie: Poetry on the Miners' Strike 40 Years On - Softcover

Wilson, Rab

 
9781804251348: Collier Laddie: Poetry on the Miners' Strike 40 Years On
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ISBN 10: 1804251348 ISBN 13: 9781804251348
Verlag: Luath Press Ltd, 2024

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Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1984-1985 national UK Miners’ Strike – the largest industrial action by a UK union in the 20th Century – Here We Go, Here We Go, Here We Go! Is comprised of Rab’s previous mining poems as well as new poems that relate to current social and economic problems in Scotland and the UK.

Once he left school in 1977, Rab Wilson worked in the mining industry along the west coast of Scotland for eight years. On the 12th March 1984 Rab joined the Miners’ Strike, where he remained on strike until the 21st March 1985, after nearly a full year on strike.

The poetry in this collection chronicles the events and aftermath of the Miners’ Strike, through the eyes of a miner who was very much involved in it, a momentous landmark of the working-class struggle. Rab has witnessed the first-hand implications of the demise of Scotland’s mining industry. No other Scots poet today is better placed than Rab to record the history and importance of Scotland’s mining industry and the challenging strike.

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RAB WILSON is an award-winning poet who is a previous winner of the McCash Prize for Poetry, has held past writing fellowship posts; Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway; James Hogg Writer in Residence in Ettrick Valley, and Scots Scriever at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. In 2023 he was awarded an Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Award for his work in Arts & Humanities in Scotland. He was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire in 1960. After an engineering apprenticeship with the National Coal Board he left the pits following the miner’s strike of 1984–5 to become a psychiatric nurse. As a Scots poet, his work appears regularly in The Herald, Chapman, Lallans and Markings magazines and he is the author of several highly praised volumes of poetry and a Burns scholar.

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Verlag
Luath Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1804251348
ISBN 13 
9781804251348
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