The poets were primarily Chinese who spoke the Cantonese and Toisanese dialects. When read aloud, many of the poems rhyme in those dialects, but they do not always rhyme in Mandarin. You can listen to ...

The father of Nottinghamshire-born writer D H Lawrence (1885-1930) was a miner: his poem The Collier's Wife evokes the everyday impact of a mining accident on a pit worker's family. And in Mardy ...

Cornish born and bred actor Stacey Guthrie explores dialect and poetry across Cornwall. Jason Griffiths uncovers a rich seam of dialect poetry in his native Forest of Dean.

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, first collection (1844) OPEN ACCESS 2013 The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems: 2. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, second collection (1859) ...

The story of lost love forms part of the Fo'c's'le Yarns series of Manx dialect poems, which are widely regarded as the single most important works in Isle of Man literature. Born in Douglas in ...

The Ayrshire poet and lyricist died in 1796, at the age of 37, but he is still regarded as the most prominent poet to have written in the Scots dialect. His most well-known poems include To a ...