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95/126
Title
Aberfan, 1966
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- [c.1967] (Creation)
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Biographical history
Robert Morgan (1921-1994) was a poet from Penrhiwceiber, Glamorgan. The son of a miner, he worked together with his father in the colliery from the age of fourteen. In 1953, he qualified as a teacher at Bognor Regis College of Education, West Sussex. He taught mentally and physically ill boys. Among his publications are The Night's Prison (1967), The Storm (1974), and his autobiography My Lamp Still Burns (1981).
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Revised draft of the poem 'Aberfan, 1966' highlighting the loss of lives in the community and a call for accountability.
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- English