Lancashire Lantern: Lancashire Poetry Index

Part of the Lancashire Lantern network, an index to authors, first lines and titles of Lancashire poetry in books held within libraries in Lancashire, including the Lancashire Authors’ Association collection. The index provides details of the book in which a particular poem may be found and also a link through to the library catalogue to give the locations of the required volume.

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ID Number	6156
Title	Children, snow, and the dusk
First Line	We are the men
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	8
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6157
Title	Evening shadows
First Line	Their shift completed
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	9
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6158
Title	My grandfather's brother
First Line	The old crushed hewer
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	10
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6159
Title	Pitch and toss
First Line	This is the place where the game
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	11
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6160
Title	Master coal-cutter
First Line	Forever inbye. He is the jib
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	12
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6161
Title	Canaries
First Line	Because it is warm
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	13
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6162
Title	Miner's Lodge
First Line	All pit-villages have these
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	14
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6163
Title	The shotfirer's issue: for those who died in the explosion 1896
First Line	My greatgrandfather was one
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	15
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6164
Title	Imagine: for my grandfather
First Line	A child's eyes begin clear
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	16-17
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6165
Title	Summer days
First Line	The brilliance of them
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	18
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6166
Title	Wet-workings
First Line	Inbye: watermen, they bathe
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	19
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6167
Title	The new vicar: for J Whittaer - parish vicar 1935-76
First Line	This is a hard place for him
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	20
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6168
Title	The sweep
First Line	is without change; he damns all
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	21
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6169
Title	The Cat-Pit: not a cat in hell's chance
First Line	Brick-lined and narrow, it was like
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	22
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	During the 19th century immigration from the countryside into the manufacturing towns of North West England caused a massive population problem. Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6170
Title	Pit-pond swans
First Line	These hills darkling our eyes
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	23
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6171
Title	The mountain
First Line	Where the street ends
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	24
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6172
Title	Tom's stone
First Line	She worked in screening
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	25
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6173
Title	Whitestone
First Line	Old woman of the street
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	26
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6174
Title	Oracle
First Line	Middling the row, this side of the road
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	27
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6175
Title	Street char
First Line	Perhaps an agreement
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	28
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6176
Title	Late shopping
First Line	Tight-lipped she waits
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	29
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6177
Title	All the Mondays
First Line	Romance is the book she thumbs
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	30
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6178
Title	Vera
First Line	Our Vera bled last night
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	31
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6179
Title	Climb the wheel to top dead centre
First Line	A sort of game the kids play
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	32
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6180
Title	The lamp-room
First Line	The lamp-room is lore
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	33
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6181
Title	The merry-go-line
First Line	Under a defeated sky
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	34
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6182
Title	Flowers from the slag-hills
First Line	A splash of red edges
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	35
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6183
Title	Ra
First Line	This knot-of-lightning
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	36
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6184
Title	Pit-pond
First Line	Black massifs ridge the sky above
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	37
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6185
Title	Safety-lamp
First Line	On the edge: a pitched tent, stark
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	38
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6186
Title	Flowers from the slag-hills part 2
First Line	Screamed the black-suited man
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	39
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6187
Title	On a photograph of redundant colliers
First Line	Only a small picture, and
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	40
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6188
Title	Talking steam with young David: for CJ and GT steam enthusiasts
First Line	Young David, misanthropist, in his 50s
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	41-42
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6189
Title	After the funeral(s)
First Line	I want to be like him, be up there
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	43
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6190
Title	Another look at the merry-go-line
First Line	Out on the line, the cold
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	44
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6191
Title	The loweringof the winding wheels
First Line	Once more
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	45
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6192
Title	The dismantling of the spoil-conveyer
First Line	I watched it go
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	46
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6193
Title	The levelling of the hills
First Line	The hills come down
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	47
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6194
Title	Down in the coal-yard: the wheel
First Line	Silence is trapped in this place, air
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	48
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6195
Title	Down in the coal-yard: holding
First Line	The tones hold, staining the yard
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	49
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6196
Title	The last load
First Line	The old engine-house
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	50
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6197
Title	Goodbye: for John (Jack) Davies
First Line	Goodbye, grand ancestor, happy eh
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	51
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6198
Title	Ancestral homes
First Line	They took dark bricks fired in Lancashire ovens
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	52
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

ID Number	6199
Title	There are no bends on Green Lane now
First Line	Hauled from the outhouse
Poet	DAVIES, Steve
Book Title	Flowers from the slaghills
Author of Book	DAVIES, Steve
Publication Date	no date
Page Number	53
Control Number	0946407444 (Check the catalogue)
Notes	Poems about the decline of the Lancashire coalmining industry

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