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In 1966, a coal-mine waste tip collapsed on a school and surrounding houses in South Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Fifty years later, Owen Sheers interviews survivors, parents, and rescuers to create a dramatic poem in the village’s voice, exploring recovery, resistance, and renewal when a system fails those in its care.","The  \nGreen HollowOwen SheersAs seen on the  \nBBC  \nIn 1966 a coal-mine waste tip collapsed ona school and surrounding houses in Aberfan,South Wales,killing 144.people,most ofthem children.Fifty years later Owen Sheersinterviewed survivors,parents and rescuersto create a dramatic poem in the voice ofthe village,then and now.The resultingwork is a striking lyrical meditation onbelonging,grief and community,fuelled bythe loves and losses of those who suffereda tragedy that shouldn't have happened.  \nOriginally created as a BAFTA-winningBBC drama,The Green Hollow is a historicalstory with a deeply urgent contemporaryresonance;the story of a community run bya corporation and the shadows cast when asystem fails those under its care.It is also,however,a moving poetic portrait of recovery,resistance and renewal,both personal andcommunal,and a beautiful rendering of  \nmemory and lived experience,not to gild or aseuphemism,but to commemorate and tribute.  \n'Sheers writes with dazzleand poetic economy.?The Times  \nUKE12.99  \n3032715579  \nLLYFRGELLOEDD BNBCESTBEF SIROLRHONDOA-CYNN-TAFDISCAO0DD       D  \nRHONDDA-CYNON-TAFCOUNTY BC⁶OUCHLJBRARIES  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nThe Green Hollow  \nby the same author  \nnon-fiction  \nTHE DUST DIARIES  \nCALON  \npoetry  \nTHE BLUE BOOK  \nSKIRRID HILL  \nA POET's GUIDE TO BRITAIN(ED.)  \nPINK MIST  \nfiction  \nRESISTANCEWHITE RAVENSTHE GOSPEL OF USI SAW A MAN  \nplays  \nTHE PASSION  \nTHE TWo WORLDS OF CHARLIE F.MAMETZ  \nThe Green Hollow  \nOwen Sheers  \nff  \nFirst published in 2018by Faber &Faber LimitedBloomsbury House74-77 Great Russell StreetLondon wC1B 3DA  \nTypeset by Faber&Faber LimitedPrinted and bound by CPI Group(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CRO 4YY  \nAll rights reserved◎ Owen Sheers,2018  \nThe right of Owen Sheers to be identified as author of this workhas been asserted in accordance with Section 77 ofthe Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988  \nAs seen on the BBC  \nBBC logo ◎BBC2017  \nBBC and the BBC logo are trademarks of the British Broadcasting Corporationand are used under licence  \nA CIP record for this bookis available from the British Library  \nISBN 978-0-571-33907-5  \n# For Aberfan","cbCaigmENwJ55I0E","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigmENwJ55I0E","pdf",4188483,3,1,120,"English","en",105,"# For Aberfan\n## Historical context of the Aberfan disaster\n## Poetic creation from interviews\n## Themes: belonging, grief, community","[{\"question\":\"What historical event is the work based on?\",\"answer\":\"It is based on the Aberfan disaster in 1966, when a coal-mine waste tip collapsed on a school and nearby houses in South Wales.\"},{\"question\":\"What approach does Owen Sheers use to create the poem?\",\"answer\":\"He interviews survivors, parents, and rescuers fifty years later to build a dramatic poem voiced by the village, then and now.\"},{\"question\":\"What central themes does the book emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on belonging, grief, and community, and on recovery, resistance, and renewal after a tragedy that “shouldn’t have happened.”\"}]","The Green Hollow - 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