Following yesterday’s feature and Jack Hair’s excellent account of the West Stanley Colliery Disaster in the North East of England. Here’s a poem written by Bill Norton about the event. This was Bill’s winning entry in a competition arranged by Jack in honour of William Hair.
We’ve taken the liberty of adding a few of Jack’s photos and a soundtrack to this video reading of the poem “The Price of Coal”.
I hope you enjoy it… Let me know what you think.
Here’s the video.
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PS: Here are two direct links to written versions of the poem in pdf format. Click here to download the fancy version and click here for the plain version.
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Sometimes a little poem conveys a far more eloquent picture than a long report…takes you right there into the tragedy.
Thanks Alan, much appreciated.
Dave,
Brilliant,very moving poem
Alan