When Did It Aal Gan Wrang

by Alan Baker

These poems are written in the Tyneside dialect of North-Eastern England. As the author says "All of these pieces are based - some very closely - on real conversations". The speaker's include a coal miner who took part in the 1926 General Strike, the young daughter of a worker in the glass industry in the 1930s and Charlie Carr, a welder at Swan Hunter's shipyard. The poems combine dialect with modernist techniques as a way of recovering the lost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1739721306
• ISBN13: 9781739721305
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Leafe Press
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 4.0" x 6.0"