Brandon PithouseThere were once more than a thousand men and boys worked at Brandon Pithouse in County Durham. Today the site of the colliery is a green wilderness. John Seed has set out to recover the lost and silent world of Durham pitmen in the company of Walter Benjamin, Sid Chaplin and Charles Reznikoff. Composed of fragments of recorded speech, parliamentary reports and newspapers, Brandon Pithouse is a book about the experience of labour about the pain and

He is former editor of Poetry Wales and is co-editor and founder of Red Poets magazine

Guernica Editions

Few poets writing today can move so effortlessly between childishness and childlike seriousness

ISBN 9781852248383)

the customs of their villages and towns

they become more than ink on the page

updated in 1986 to include his hilarious meter reading experiences

which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation

and fierce

but he has tuberculosis

translated by Dennis Tomlinson

five years or so after the death of General Franco