url
	https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/1873
dcterms:creator
	Harrison, Tony
dcterms:created
	1993
dcterms:description
	Booklet: 'Poetry or Bust' a play by Tony Harrison. It tells the story of John Nicholson a sometime woolsorter but published playwrite and poet known as the 'Airedale Poet'. Despite some success, Nicholson moved to Bradford and found work with Titus Salt as a woolsorter. He died while trying to cross the River Aire in 1943 in what became Saltaire about 10 years later. Tony Harrison's play tells the story of Nicholson's life and was first performed in Salts Mill in 1993, 150 years after his death and only 100 metres or so from where he tried to cross the river.
dcterms:format
	printed
dcterms:identifier
	B1-218b
dcterms:references
	Nicholson, John
dcterms:relation
	https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6567 Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
dcterms:subject
	Yorkshire history
	Celebration
	Entertainment
dcterms:title
	Poetry or Bust
dcterms:type
	booklet

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