Untameable

Description

The book features work by artists Patrick Murphy and Anton Want, inspired by Barry Hines’s work and the contents of his archive held at The University of Sheffield.

The book showcases Hines’s dogged determination over three decades to write about the changing personal and political landscapes of working-class life in South Yorkshire. The book visually explores and reinterprets these landscapes and key themes from his work.

Hines was the quintessential working-class writer from Barnsley. He was a man who wrote from the margins, and unflinchingly chronicled the social injustices he witnessed: from the failure of the education system and lack of opportunity found in A Kestrel for a Knave and the examination of land ownership and alienated labour in The Gamekeeper, to the devastating effect that Thatcherism had on Sheffield in Looks and Smiles and the increasingly toxic climate of nuclear threat during the 1980s in Threads.