Dr Katy Shaw, Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, will examine the legacy of the miners' strike during Latitude Festival 2014, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of people to Southwold in Suffolk in July.
Big names in the music world including former Blur member Damon Albarn and Haim are in the Latitude lineup but the festival will also have stages dedicated to comedy and literature.
Dr Shaw was invited to host The Poetry Arena at the festival as a result of her role as Director of the Faculty's Centre 21 which is dedicated to research on 21st century writings, and her book Mining the Meaning which examines strikers' poems from 1984-5.
Dr Shaw said: "The event will be a tribute to miners' strike poetry as this is the 30th anniversary of the strikes, and it will feature a host of musicians, poets and actors reading original poetry written by miners during the strike with me presenting the stage."
The event, she said, will offer re-readings of the past to consider the social, cultural and political legacy of the strike: "Three decades on from the biggest post-war dispute in British labour history, a range of poets, performers and artists ask how and why poetry written by miners can help us understand unspoken slices of our contentious history.
"We will think about the legacy of the miners' strike especially in the light of current strike actions and austerity measures.
"I am honoured to be asked to help communicate these largely ignored poetic works to a wider twenty-first century audience. Strikers' poetic accounts of the biggest post-war labour conflict in British history offer an unspoken slice of history and have the potential to illuminate important connections between the shared struggles of the 1980s and the present day.
"As someone who has enjoyed Latitude Festival for several years now I know it will offer a brilliant stage and supportive audience for the consideration of these works by poets, performers and artists alike."
Latitude starts on 17 July and Dr Shaw's event will be on Sunday, 20 July. For more information, go to www.latitudefestival.com.