The Years of Anger

Randall Swingler (1909-67) was arguably the most significant and the best-known radical English poet of his generation. This new biography draws on extensive sources, including the Security Services files, to present the most detailed account yet of this influential poet, lyricist and activist.

Andy Croft's books include Red Letter Days, Out of the Old Earth, A Weapon in the Struggle, Selected Poems of Randall Swingler, After the Party, Forty-six Quid and a Bag of Dirty Washing, Bare Freedom and The Years of Anger. His plays include two Edinburgh Festival Fringe productions, Smoke! (2004) and Horty Porty (2005). Writing Residencies include the Great North Run, the Hartlepool Headland, Middlesbrough Town Hall, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, the Teesside Transporter Bridge, HMP Holme House and HMP Moorland.

1. Home 2. School 3. Oxford 4. Entrance to the City 5. 1937 6. 1938 7. 1939 8. Imperialist War 9. Signals 10. Italy 11. Victory 12. London 13. Cold War 14. 1956 15. The People's Republic of Pebmarsh 16. The True Dark