Timeless and beautiful, Grafters is a sympathetic tale of industrial post-war Britain. Its subjects are people who endure physical hardship with dignity- miners cramped and soaking against a two-foot coal seam, dockets waiting in gangs to work, shipbuilders unaware that they are laboring on the yards last vessel, as well as ballet dancers wrought by the sweat and toil of rehearsals. Grafters is an elegiac poem about a time and a way of life that has passed and we will never experience again.