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Olive Rogers

Contains 1 performance.

Liverpudlian. Member of the Federation of Worker Writers & Community Publishers. Best remembered for her poem 'Once I Was a Washing Machine'.

  • Miner Poets

    Miner Poets

    1 August 1984 at 
    Southbank Centre (30)
    A benefit for the striking miners, co-programmed by Apples & Snakes and the Poetry Society, and supported by the GLC.  If the ticks on the back of the flyer are indicative of A&S’s contribution, then it comprised Hegley, Gilbey, Fred Williams, McGee, Agard, Joolz, LKJ, Prescod, Fell, Condell and African ...
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