LEIGH'S Lanky poet Joe Wildman is continuing his run of success.
The 67-year-old pensioner's five verse dialect tribute to "T'Last Shift" at Bickershaw Colliery has been published in a book, "Lancashire Lingo Lines" edited by Bob Dobson.
Joe, of Wigan Road, is an avid writer on the town's pits, mill chimneys and home town.
His work is included along with 80 other poems in the 60 page book which will be on sale at shops throughout the county at £5.
Joe recently won two cups and the Geoffrey Handley-Taylor Rose Bowl with the Lady Hulton award for Writer of the Year in the Lancashire Authors' Association competition.
He collected the Scholes Cup for his "Moorland Edge" and the Pomfret Cup for a short story :"Han 'yo getten onny?"
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