ABSTRACT
Swingler gets a teaching job in Croydon. His first book Poems is published in1932. He marries Geraldine in 1933. He joins the Writers International and becomes friends with David Archer, George and Jessie Barker, Auden and Day Lewis. He publishes two more books in 1933, Reconstruction and Difficult Morning. He writes Song of the Hunger Marchers with Alan Bush; as a result MI5 open a file on Swingler. In 1935 he joins the Communist Party. The Swinglers’ daughter Judy is born in 1935. Swingler writes seven new manuscripts, is active in the WMA and is assistant editor of the Group Theatre magazine; he writes Peer Gynt for Group Theatre. At the end of 1936 the Swinglers move back to London, where he writes Spain for Unity Theatre.
