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    An Industry Now Lost - The Pride, Passion and Pain of Mining: Wordcatcher Modern Poetry
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    An Industry Now Lost - The Pride, Passion and Pain of Mining: Wordcatcher Modern Poetry
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    An Industry Now Lost - The Pride, Passion and Pain of Mining: Wordcatcher Modern Poetry

    By Arthur Cole

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    An 'Industry Now Lost' is a book of poems on the subject of coal mining throughout the UK and other countries of the world. It mostly portrays mining disasters from Victorian times, however there are more modern disasters depicted like 'Aberfan' in 1966 and 'Gleision' in 2011.

    Arthur Cole is from a mining background and has seen the industry decimated in modern times. 

    There are poems relating to the resolve of miners and their endeavour to succeed, one such poem, A tribute to tower, is about a colliery bought out by the work miners. For thirteen years they worked for themselves. The driving force behind this was their leader, Tyrone O'Sullivan. This was a great achievement at a time when collieries were closing left, right and centre.

    On a sadder note there is one on the closing of Kellingley Colliery, the last deep mine in the UK.

    There are many other noteworthy disasters commemorated ,such as Senghenydd, Gresford and Parc Slip. In these disasters many brave men and children lost their lives.

    Many of the poems relate to conditions during Victorian times, where whole families worked underground, even children as young as six years of age. To say conditions were grim is an understatement. Workers were treated with disdain and health and safety was non existent. In Victorian times it was all about profit, the rich got richer and the poor were discarded.

    There are poems relating to pit ponies and canaries outlining the vital role they played underground.

    There is a poem 'The Keeper of the Collieries' a nine-foot-high oak statue of a miner. The statue looks down on the Llynfi Valley, Maesteg. This valley that once boasted three working coal mines within two miles of each other, sadly no more.

    With the poems Arthur describes the dangers of mining over a long period of time and the bravery and resolve of those individuals who dare to work in the bowels of the earth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWordcatcher Publishing
    Release dateDec 7, 2018
    ISBN9781789420203
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    An Industry Now Lost - The Pride, Passion and Pain of Mining: Wordcatcher Modern Poetry
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    Arthur Cole

    Arthur Cole was born in Caerau, a small mining village at the top of the Llynfi Valley, South Wales. His father William (Billy), and many of his close relatives were miners and worked at the two main collieries, Caerau and Coegnant. He attended Maesteg Grammar School, where he was heavily influenced by his English Literature teacher, the late Mr David John. Mr John introduced Arthur to war poets, such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and that’s where his passion for writing began. Arthur left school at the age of sixteen and, in 1967, joined the Glamorgan Constabulary as a cadet, he later joined the regular force, the South Wales Constabulary, as a constable. In 1973 he became a Detective Constable, and for twenty-seven years was involved in the investigation of major crimes from murder to anti-terrorism. Throughout his career he never wrote any poetry or other literature because he could never find time. He retired as a Detective Sergeant and then became a gardener, working at a local Council home for people with dementia. In November 2015 he wrote his first poem ‘Aberfan’. He was inspired to write it after reading a mining poem on a colliery website. Then poetry began to flow. His subjects are mainly coal mining and the First World War, however he can write about anything. He describes himself as an authentic poet, his philosophy being that when people read poetry they must be able to understand it and it should tell a story. In February 2016, he wrote his first book ‘Unethical Conduct’, which is now book one in the Terry McGuire Thriller series. The books are crime thriller set in and around South Wales. He was encouraged to write the book by his friend and now co-author Nigel Williams, himself a retired police officer. It only took Arthur a fortnight to write the book, and to date together with Nigel they have written eight books in the series. He has been married to Caroline for forty-three years and they have two children: Christopher is a serving police officer in South Wales; and Karen is a creative director, who lives and works in Singapore.

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