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Collier Laddie Rab Wilson

Collier Laddie By Rab Wilson

Collier Laddie by Rab Wilson


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Collier Laddie by Rab Wilson

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 Rabs 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 Scotlands mining industry. No other Scots poet today is better placed than Rab to record the history and importance of Scotlands mining industry and the challenging strike.

Collier Laddie Reviews

Anyone who has an enquiring mind and an interest in all things beyond our world will find this a fascinating read. Scottish Field on Oor Big Braw Cosmos

Our traditional language could hardly have a more eloquent exponent. Lesley Duncan on Accent O the Mind

About Rab Wilson

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 miners strike of 19845 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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NGR9781804251348
9781804251348
1804251348
Collier Laddie by Rab Wilson
New
Paperback
Luath Press Ltd
2024-05-30
N/A
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