These poems are so powerful and moving that they almost set the page alight with their anger and craft; set alongside stunning photographs they really are first drafts of a history that needs to be told.
IAN McMILLAN - poet, journalist, playwright, broadcaster
Poems straight from the front line of the miners' strike: sharp, impassioned, resonant. A genuine affinity with the people and places she writes about. Essential reading for this landmark anniversary.
IAN PARKS - poet, songwriter, academic
A fierce, gripping, and tender memorial to the coal-mining communities embroiled in the 1984-85 strike, as captured by the photographers of the time, and re-imagined for us by the poet Sarah Wimbush, whose indignation ignites the page.
AMY WACK - poet and editor, based in Cardiff, Wales
This moving and important book about the miners' strike is a sustained act of attention that, through photographs and poems, captures the raw, tender texture of the recent past. A poetic archive of slogans, slang and heart-breaking details - home-perms, clubs, jumble, chips and scraps - reminds us that, defiantly: 'Our language still exists'.
CLARE POLLARD - poet, novelist, playwright, literary translator, critic
