the Coalfields (1886) Carols, Songs, and Ballads (1888) Songs and Lyrics (1892) Selected Poems [of] Joseph Skipsey Joseph Skipsey: Selected Poems, R.K.R. Thornton; Chris Harrison; William Daniel McCumiskey (eds), Newcastle: The Rectory Press, 2014. Poems Poems written by Skipsey: "Get Up!" The Hartley Calamity (1862) recounts the tragedy of the 204 men and boys (most of the male population of the village) who suffocated in the colliery after a six-day struggle to dig them out Willy to Jinny Kit never went down The Collier Lad Mother wept Mary of Crofton Jemmy stops lang at the fair – appears on page 12 of J. W. Swanston’s Tyneside Songster Skipsey also edited the following volumes of poetry for the "Canterbury Poets" series published by Walter Scott Publishing Co., for each of which he provided a biographical preface: The Poems, with Specimens of the Prose Writings, William Blake (1884) The Lyrics and minor poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1884) The Poems of S.T. Coleridge (1884) The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1884) The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Poems (1885) The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Songs (1885) See also Geordie dialect words J. W. Swanston The Tyneside Songster by J. W. Swanston References Further reading Joseph Skipsey, His life and work by the Rt Hon Robert Spence Watson Joseph Skipsey, the ‘peasant poet’, and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats, Gordon Tait, Literature & History, November 2016, pp. 134-49. Selected Poems of Joseph Skipsey, William Daniel McCumiskey & R K R Thornton (ed.) External links Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903): the 'Pitman Poet' at gerald-massey.org,uk Farne archives - enter "Skipsey, Joseph" and click Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings Attribution English miners English male poets English songwriters People from Percy Main Writers from Tyne and Wear 1903 deaths 1832 births Geordie songwriters 19th-century English musicians