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Spirit Ditch · Oct 12, 2017

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It's a pity you don't live a bit closer, Mexborough is a real hub of poetry these days, our club has a poetry group called 'Read to write' that meets every Tuesday evening, and the last Sunday in the month a group called ' Voices ' meets . A pub in the town hosts 'Pitmen Poets' once a month , and there is now an annual Ted Hughes Festival that takes place mainly in Ted's old Grammar school...people associate Ted mostly with Mytholmroyd but actually his formative years were spent in Mexborough and the Festival group have organised a trail that takes you to the places he actually wrote or conceived much of his work.
The various groups also have been raising awareness of less well known but equally brilliant writers from the town, William Wall who wrote under the pseudonym 'Sarban' and Harold Massingham .
I never really considered poetry much before the last two or three years ( purely being a ' half a league onward' type ) but I'm now buying books from the local writers and loving it.
I've even written a couple of things myself...who'd have thought it!!
As an aside..I've been doing some family history and it looks like I could well be related to the Victorian authoress Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, Endsor being a name from my mother's tree and Jewsbury being my paternal Grandmother's maiden name .
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When's the next One? I've been meaning to come down to one of these

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