Cotton Famine Poems

Cotton Famine Poems is a project comprising settings of poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65 
featured in the Guardian. 

The poems have been published as part of 
Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine,an AHRC-funded project by Simon Rennie at the University
of Exeter.

Please note that the language of the poems, which remains uncensored, reflects the mores of the time.
 

Sample recordings with links to the poems