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Originally Posted by garinda
We've got some poems by a local poet called Joan Pomfret, who's also featured in the book of poems, An Accrington Miscellany.
Probably unconnected, though it's an unusual name, so she might be a descendent.
Here's one of her dialect poems, T' Mothers' Meetin'.
LD Poems T? Mothers? Meetin? |
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Joan Pomfret was one our all-time top dialect writers, in prose and verse. This was her maiden name. She was Mrs Douglas TOWNSEND. Joan's father was borough librarian in Darwen & Preston. She died about 15yrs ago in Gt Harwood, where she was president of the Gt Harwod Male Voice Choir. A lovely lady. She had no children. One of her best pooems was "Other folks' children"