By Margaret Crosby

Published at 11:10, Thursday, 24 May 2012

PROCEEDS from the sale of a collection of poems by cousins Joyce Hurst and Jenny Martin, entitled Dandelions: Growing Up In Cumbria, which was launched at The Beacon last year, has been donated to CKDCF (Charlie and Kathleen Dunnery Children’s Fund).

FUNDRAISERS: Cousins and poets Jenny Martin and Joyce Hurst at the launch of their book at The Beacon last year

The illustrated book sold for £4.99 a copy and, says Jenny, “comprised 17 easy-to-read poems that speak of simple humanity, love and beauty, the bedrock of our Cumbrian childhoods.’’

It was dedicated to Joyce and Jenny’s grandparents, William, a Whitehaven miner, and Emma Martin.

A cheque for £455 has been sent to the Children’s Fund.

The book authors both went to schoold in Whitehaven but Jenny now lives in Cheshire and Joyce, after a period abroad, has returned to Whitehaven to live.

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