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Riverside Writers “Folk Like Us” event at Rochdale Town Hall on 31st May 2025 was recorded in video and photos. Please CLICK HERE for the video and CLICK HERE for a collection of photos from the day, displayed as a slide show video – these links will open in new tabs and show the video through YouTube.
- Susan Smith reading a lovely piece from her nature journal at our session in Rochdale Central Library – CLICK HERE TO WATCH
- Seamus Kelly reading a slightly spooky story – CLICK HERE TO WATCH
POETRY AND PROSE – documents will open in a new tab
The poems and stories here have all been written by members of Riverside Writers. As we remember the first and only uses of atomic bombs in August 1945, 80 years ago, and the death and destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki it is appropriate to post the following two poems by Eileen Earnshaw:
- I was born when the ghosts were leaving the world – Eileen Earnshaw – READ POEM HERE
- Soldiers – Eileen Earnshaw – READ POEM HERE
- In defence of a small town – Joanne Wood – READ POEM HERE
- Time – Ray Stearn – CLICK HERE
- Last night I stole a wish – Ray Stearn – READ POEM HERE
- There should be nothing here I don’t remember – Eileen Earnshaw – READ POEM HERE
- The Supermarket queue – Eileen Earnshaw –READ POEM HERE
- The Funeral – Eileen Earnshaw – READ POEM HERE
- We went to Kent – Christine Oyston – READ POEM HERE
- Little Crocodie – Sylvia Anne Jones – READ POEM HERE
- Stolen Love – Joanne Wood – READ POEM HERE
- Clitheroe War Memorial – Ray Stearn – READ POEM HERE
- Blackbird – Sylvia Anne Jones – CLICK STORY HERE
- Falcon – Eileen Earnshaw – READ POEM HERE
- The Reluctant Traveller – Joanne Wood – READ POEM HERE