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.