Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Poetic Obituaries: As Ernest [Ford] himself said

of his humble beginnings: "I set myself thinking of my dog at home and lo and behold found myself tap, tap, tapping my way through my first completed poem.

"As I had been speaking dialect words since birth I now discovered that I had a natural flair to write them down." From little acorns...

Ow Do by Ernest Ford

from The Bolton News: Life and times of the king of Lanky dialect

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