Description
Nineteenth-century poet Francis Buchanan reluctantly left behind
his beloved Perthshire homeland, but settled in Sheffield,
where his second volume of poetry was published in 1882.
Sparks from Sheffield Smoke: A Series of Local and Other Poems
offers rhyme inspired by settings such as Wincobank Hill,
Sheffield Manor, Haddon Hall, and Ecclesall Churchyard.
Local characters are immortalised in verse, and more . . .
A selection has been revived by his great-great-granddaughter
in this fascinating insight comprising local history,
bygone celebrated poets, the Duftys of Sheffield, and war poems.
Includes a notable elegy to Sheffield Castle;
also reminiscences of Perth’s Kinnoull Hill and River Tay.
