The Hammers

About Author

Roger Cornish

Roger Cornish was born the fifth of seven children to Coal Miner – Jack Cornish and Hosiery Worker Edna Cornish. He worked as a Coal Miner for 23 years. His dad was also a miner. Roger started writing poetry as a kind of 'therapy' after losing his daughter aged 9 to Cystic Fibrosis. Now retired, he spends his time on his allotment and writing poetry. Roger writes about desire, camaraderie, grief, class, faith lost and faith of a different kind found. He writes about what men do to women and what women survive. He writes about the mines as a place of brotherhood and danger and profound meaning. He writes about a Leicestershire that has largely disappeared — the back-to-backs, the pit wheels, the communities unmade by political decisions taken far away by people who had never gone underground.