What To Do With Old Poems/Writing
Discussion
Not sure if this is the best place to put this, but here goes.
We've recently had a bit of a clean out and come across some old poems/stories written with pen and paper mainly (but some typed up) by my partners dad before he passed away. They are anywhere between 25-40 years old and in various states of repair, the paper on most of them being very tattered and worn and not having a right lot of life left in them before they disintegrate. They are mainly done on paper in biro but a couple are in pencil and a couple done on a typewriter.
They are mainly poems in what I suppose could only really be accurately described as a 'carry on film' style and a lot of them are written in strong Yorkshire dialect with plenty of hardly heard nowadays slang words. They paint an amusing picture of things like Northern working life, camping holidays and other day to day things with a bit of toilet humour mixed in.
We have scanned them all today so we now have a digital copy of them all but seen as some of the pieces are written on oddball size paper and some of them written on both sides so whilst scanned they aren't particularly neat and they are a bit disjointed for want of a better expression. Now we are wondering if anybody can think of any ideas of what we could do with them? Current ideas include typing them all up but they might loose a bit of value as it won't be the old lads hand writing any more, perhaps send them to the 'Yorkshire Prose' guy on Facebook/Twitter (similar sort of thing to what he performs) or even send them to Ian McMillan - don't really know what to do!
These are obviously fantastic memories and make brilliant reading for us (and they may even be interesting for some others but maybe not), we are just at a loss as to what (if anything) to do with them - any suggestions of what we could do with them please?
We've recently had a bit of a clean out and come across some old poems/stories written with pen and paper mainly (but some typed up) by my partners dad before he passed away. They are anywhere between 25-40 years old and in various states of repair, the paper on most of them being very tattered and worn and not having a right lot of life left in them before they disintegrate. They are mainly done on paper in biro but a couple are in pencil and a couple done on a typewriter.
They are mainly poems in what I suppose could only really be accurately described as a 'carry on film' style and a lot of them are written in strong Yorkshire dialect with plenty of hardly heard nowadays slang words. They paint an amusing picture of things like Northern working life, camping holidays and other day to day things with a bit of toilet humour mixed in.
We have scanned them all today so we now have a digital copy of them all but seen as some of the pieces are written on oddball size paper and some of them written on both sides so whilst scanned they aren't particularly neat and they are a bit disjointed for want of a better expression. Now we are wondering if anybody can think of any ideas of what we could do with them? Current ideas include typing them all up but they might loose a bit of value as it won't be the old lads hand writing any more, perhaps send them to the 'Yorkshire Prose' guy on Facebook/Twitter (similar sort of thing to what he performs) or even send them to Ian McMillan - don't really know what to do!
These are obviously fantastic memories and make brilliant reading for us (and they may even be interesting for some others but maybe not), we are just at a loss as to what (if anything) to do with them - any suggestions of what we could do with them please?
My suggestion would be to have them bound into a book by a specialist such as these people
http://www.jotbindery.co.uk/
http://www.jotbindery.co.uk/
Maybe type them up and get them printed for your partner as an anniversary gift/Christmas present?
Once you’ve done that, maybe contact a local museum/education centre and see if they’re interested. I imagine it’ll give some insight to both the language and life at the time of his life.
Once you’ve done that, maybe contact a local museum/education centre and see if they’re interested. I imagine it’ll give some insight to both the language and life at the time of his life.
Thanks for all the replies, we did an 'apple book' for him to show them off at his funeral a few years ago - will look into the suggestions about sending them to the Dalesman etc. Is copywrite something we would need to worry about just in case?
According to gov. website we are covered already but presumably it's a case of proving it?
According to gov. website we are covered already but presumably it's a case of proving it?
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