"Some histories of the Sheffield flood 1864" by Rob Hindle (Templar Poetry, 2006)

A pamphlet of poems from Staple, etc, with adverts from the Sheffield Telegraph and Sheffield Times, 1864. The poems are about victims (there were over 250) and survivors - slices of life all presented in much the same voice though one's a 1st person PoV by a dead 14 year-old. I like the pamphlet - as much for the factual info as the poetry. A suicider was saved from the river and locked up over-night. When the water rose to his armpits he pleaded to be let out. He survived, but the Inspector who freed him caught typhus and died.