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The Fig Tree is a vibrant online poetry magazine that publishes out of the North of England. Edited by poet Tim Fellows, this special selection of contemporary poets reflects on every aspect of the people and communities that lived and worked in the coal fields of the United Kingdom and beyond. This is an anthology of authentic and distinctive voices. Nearly all of them arise from direct experience of the villages and towns whose existence depended on the coal industry. The devastation of the 1984- 1985 Strike, so deeply felt by those who lived through it, is articulated through these memorable and moving poems.
Featuring poems by Forward Prize shortlisted Sarah Wimbush and Claire Lynn, along with Ian Parks, Ian Harker, Joe Williams and many others from the coalfields of England, Scotland, Wales and the USA, this collection forms a valuable addition to the archival knowledge of a rapidly vanishing world.
Contains 80 pages and 63 poems.
Crooked Spire Press 