The father of Nottinghamshire-born writer D H Lawrence (1885-1930) was a miner: his poem The Collier's Wife evokes the everyday impact of a mining accident on a pit worker's family. And in Mardy ...

Her newest work, Kettle Bottom, re-imagines the West Virginia coal mine wars of 1920–1921 through the voices of immigrant, miners, and their families ... These deeply-felt, wide-awake, powerful poems ...