Mine

by Stephen Collis

Stephen Collis's forebears emigrated from Scotland to work in the coal mines that flourished on Vancouver Island from the mid?1800s to the early 1900s. In this book'length poem, he plunges back in time to reconstruct the history of coal on the Island. Spanning the Cretaceous era to presentday downtown Nanaimo, this is dynamic, richly textured work.Workers' struggles against the robber barons, the classism and racism faced by miners, issues of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921586876
• ISBN13: 9780921586876
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 116 Pages