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 an award-winning Welsh poet and author and unofficial poet for Cardiff City FC. His new book of political poetry, Nobody's Subject, is published in Summer 2016.
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