Lancashire Dialect Poetry

Bob Dobson · 27-06-2013, 10:45

I have a copy of the book Lancashire Evergreens, edited by Joan Pomfret. Joan was a Gt Harwood lady, and a wonderful poet and writer in dialect and standard English. This book is an anthology of the best poems by our top writers. This book has a previous owner's signature inside it - M Pilkington. If we have any member of that name, I will be pleased to let him/her have this book for free. -delivered to Acc. I may not be able to respond for a few days

Margaret Pilkington · 29-06-2013, 18:36

Well, that is my name(or certainly the Pilkington and the initial)...but I am pretty sure it has never been one that I have owned.
Bob, I do like poetry and I have a few dialect books. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but if any other member wants this book, then please let them have it.

I am trying to downsize my own book collection - but having little success......and if himself thinks I have homed another stray, I will get my hands slapped.

Bob Dobson · 29-06-2013, 19:06

Okidoki M Pilk. The offer is still on the table

Margaret Pilkington · 29-06-2013, 20:23

thank you Bob. Much appreciated.

cashman · 29-06-2013, 20:47

Well there yeh go i will have it,if no begger else wants it.

Bob Dobson · 29-06-2013, 21:03

Reyt, it's thine.

cashman · 29-06-2013, 21:04

Splendid fellow, They all call yeh, But ive always found yeh al-right.

Margaret Pilkington · 30-06-2013, 08:51

Enjoy it Cashy!
Bob - glad it has found a new home....I was wavering there for a moment or two...searching for a place on my bookshelf

Retlaw · 30-06-2013, 11:26

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Enjoy it Cashy!
Bob - glad it has found a new home....I was wavering there for a moment or two...searching for a place on my bookshelf

Thoni truble wi thad ist nu ownur ul ev tu lurn tu reed.

Margaret Pilkington · 30-06-2013, 13:27

Well, he reads the stuff on here......I know that dialect is different, but Cashy is of an age when he will remember it being spoken.....I know I do!

yerself · 30-06-2013, 13:29

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I do like poetry and I have a few dialect books

Have a look here then: Howling Dog

Hello and welcome to Howling Dog...
...my little place on the internet where you're most welcome to pull up a chair, make yourself comfortable and have a good old nosey around. I'll put the kettle on and get the chocolate biscuits!

I think his one of his best is 'Northern Bye-Bye Blues (You're a boring ****** Brenda) from the Rhythms and Rhymes CD.

Bob Dobson · 30-06-2013, 13:35

In really like Howling Dog' Steve Morris' poems. They are Lancashire through and through, but not dialect

Ryewolf90 · 26-02-2020, 16:36

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

In really like Howling Dog' Steve Morris' poems. They are Lancashire through and through, but not dialect

You'll be sad to hear that Steve passed away quite suddenly on the 9th February 2020, I went to his funeral last Friday at Charnock Richard Crematorium

Bob Dobson · 29-02-2020, 22:28

I'm ad to hear this. I think of Steve every time I come across a lady called Brenda. He wrote a great poem which starts off ...."You're a boring ******, Brenda"

Ryewolf90 · 01-03-2020, 18:59

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

I'm ad to hear this. I think of Steve every time I come across a lady called Brenda. He wrote a great poem which starts off ...."You're a boring ******, Brenda"

I was surprised by how well known he was in Lancashire. There was a piece on Radio Lancashire about him:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p082h2tp

They played part of the Boring Brenda monologue....