This is a poem from my latest collection of dialect poems ‘Igh Sheriff o Merthyr’( Carreg Gwalch). The film is made by Steve Jones, who I’ve collaborated with a number of times, our last one being ‘Breakin-a Box’, a translation into dialect of a poem by the Swedish poet Lou Ice.
Oo Stole Ower Town
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Mike Jenkins is a retired teacher who lives in Merthyr Tydfil, in the Welsh Valleys. He’s the editor of several anthologies for Culture Matters, including Yer Ower Voices! and We Not Me / Ni Nid Fi, anthologies of radical poetry from Cymru. Mike is an activist in both the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the ecosocialist republican movement Cymru Rising / Cymru’n Codi.
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