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Proletarian Poetry is a new project which aims to show all aspects of working-class life, from historical and contemporary poems of struggle, through to the everyday experiences of people enjoying life beyond the means of production.
The aim is to get a more rounded picture of the lives of working-class people.
The title is a tribute to the “proletarian poets” of the 1920s that included Langston Hughes. Hughes was part of the movement whose writing had a class consciousness to it, that didn’t hold back in its description of the plight of black working-class people during the interwar decades of the early 20th century.
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