Episode two of the Working Class Literature podcast about Joseph Skipsey, a poet and coal miner from the North East of England. After entering the mines as a child, he would grow up to become a nationally-renowned poet, respected by some of the most famous artists of the nineteenth century. In this episode, we speak to researcher Dr Gordon Tait and musician Chris Harrison, both of whom have been doing lots of work around Skipsey’s life and poetry. If you want to support our work, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/workingclasshistory Our patreon supporters get exclusive access to our Joseph Skipsey bonus episode, with more information about about the murder of Skipsey's father during the 1832 miners' strike, a reading guide to miners' literature from the North East of England, and more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wcl-e2-1-joseph-51760485 And you can also follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/workingclasslit For more information on Skipsey, check out Chris' website, which also has more on Chris' music based around Skipsey's poetry: http://www.chrisharrisonmusic.org/musical-activities/carols-from-the-coalfields Also check out Gordon's excellent article, 'Joseph Skipsey, the "peasant poet", and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats': https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/440536/joseph-skipsey-the-peasant-poet-and-an-unpublished-letter-from-w-b-yeats And the Minor Victorian Writers website has a great collection of Skipsey’s poems, a biography, and the introductory essays which Skipsey wrote as part of edited collections on William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Burns and Percy Bysshe Shelley, which were produced in order to make poetry accessible to the working class.

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E02 Joseph Skipsey: poet and pitman

Podcast episode about the life and work of radical hobo author T-Bone Slim. A prolific columnist for the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union in the United States, he was also a poet and songwriter as well as a barge captain working on the New York waterfront. In this episode we speak to Dr Owen Clayton from the University of Lincoln and Slim's great-grandnephew, John Westmoreland. If you want to support our work, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/workingclassliterature Our patreon supporters get exclusive access to our T-Bone Slim bonus episode, with more information about his mysterious death and more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wcl-e01-1-t-bone-29711940 And you can also follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/workingclasslit Check out The Big Red Songbook of IWW songs, including those by Slim, in the WCH online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/the-big-red-songbook-250-iww-songs More information on Slim, can be found in the links below: - Puns, Politics, and Pork Chops: The ‘insignificant magnitude’ of T-Bone Slim by Dr Owen Clayton: https://workingclassstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/jwcs-vol-4-issue-1-june-2019-clayton.pdf - Juice is Stranger Than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim, edited by Franklin Rosemont: https://www.akpress.org/juiceisstrangerthanfriction.html - T-Bone Slim papers held at the Newberry Library, Chicago: http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_mms/id/53743 - More information, photos and full show notes here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/09/04/wcl-e01-t-bone-slim-the-laureate-of-the-logging-camps/ Theme music by John Westmoreland. Check out the following links for more info: Website: westmorelandmusic.com/ Album, Cast Fire: store.cdbaby.com/cd/westmoreland7 Facebook: www.facebook.com/westmoreland.band/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/westmoreland_music/ Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lnbkyMa-N0wYkR6R26Oxg

E01 T-Bone Slim: the laureate of the logging camps

A short introduction to the WCL podcast and what we're about. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/workingclasslit Support our project on patreon here: www.patreon.com/workingclassliterature Theme music by John Westmoreland. Check out the following links for more info: Website: https://westmorelandmusic.com/ Album, Cast Fire: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/westmoreland7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/westmoreland.band/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/westmoreland_music/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lnbkyMa-N0wYkR6R26Oxg

E00 Introduction to the Working Class Literature podcast

Podcast taking a look at working class and radical literature, fiction and culture. Sister pod to Working Class History.

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