Mining Memories

by Jenny Martin

Published May 2010

ABOUT THE BOOK
This collection of fifteen poems is a moving testimony to the buried truth of the hardship, exploitation, even contempt, suffered by the universal fellowship of miners and their families, and the courage honesty, generosity and respect for others that underpin their own lives.

These lines end the collection:
Dignity transcends
degradation, death. You rest
marras, brothers all.

ABOUT THE POET
Jenny Martin comes from a Whitehaven mining family. She had an uncle who was killed in the 1941 William pit disaster, and a cousin who fell to his death down a pit shaft in 1953 when they were both fifteen. She qualified in medicine specialising in a branch of diagnostic medicine, chemical pathology, and retired in 1994. In 2007, encouraged by the leader of the creative writing group that she had recently joined, she tried her hand at poetry with several successes. Mining Memories is her first poetry collection to be published. She is married with two adult children and lives in Cheshire.

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