Meet A Welsh Author — Mike Parker and the inspiration of Thomas Hardy
#MikeParker #Wales #welshauthors #welshliterature

https://bookertalk.com/meet-a-welsh-author-mike-parker-and-the-inspiration-of-thomas-hardy/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs

Mike Parker:
🎵 Chant With Me

#MikeParker

https://open.spotify.com/track/0shbXN2coMv9sETGtQNIlV

https://mikeparker.bandcamp.com/track/chant-with-me

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs

Mike Parker:
🎵 The Burning Rountable

#MikeParker

https://open.spotify.com/track/5EKyR1hIgBArRzKfMQbkI4

@EJBrand

For obvious reasons, I have to toot the #WelshWritingInEnglish horn.
#AllenRaine
#HildaVaughan
#ThomasRichards
#MikeParker (does non-fiction count?)

My other, non-Welsh faves are
#AngelaCarter
#JohnDonne

Best obituary of #MikeParker yet, by Gay Semel, in Jacobin. This is important because Mike was one of those low profile, indispensable, thinker-organizers that keep movements alive and enhance them. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/antiwar-civil-rights-fsm-is-socialism-richmond

Interesting obituary of #MikeParker by Dan LaBotz that does not neglect Mike's interesting political history.

"As speaker, writer, and organizer, over the course of his life Mike influenced thousands, imbuing them with the idea that they could build strong democratic organizations capable of fighting the corporations, challenging government policies, and making the world a better place."

https://newpol.org/mike-parker-socialist-labor-educator-political-activist-1940-2022/

Longtime labor and radical activist #MikeParker has died.

I met him at Labor Notes and the political group Solidarity. A skilled autoworker for political and personal reasons (he enjoyed electronics), he was one of those 1960s radicals who thought revolution was at hand, only to spend most of his activist life doing the long hard work of sustaining a political vision and keeping it fresh, by writing, union organizing, and above all patient and intense conversations with young activists.