Pictures and poems come together in a lavish new book celebrating the Bronts and their effects on other writers.

Professional photographer Simon Warner, from Stanbury, has contributed almost 100 pictures to 'An Enduring Flame'. His photographs accompany around 90 Bront-inspired poems by writers including the late Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Ian McMillan and Emily Dickinson.

The book was compiled by Manchester poet Wendy Bardsley. It was launched last week at the Bront Parsonage Museum at Haworth.

Wendy's book brings the poems from the past 150 years together for the first time with the Bronts' own poetry, and is accompanied by a retelling of the life of the family.

Some of Mr Warner's 39 colour photos and 58 black and white images were taken specially for the book, and others have been taken over the past 20 years.

Mr Warner says: "I read the poems and selected some photographs which I thought were applicable. My main interest is the landscape but I am also interested in the Bronts."

He says some pictures illustrate famous Bront locations but others simply echo the moods that the Bronts' lives and works invoked.

'An Enduring Flame' is published by Ilkley firm Smith Settle at £4.95 (paperback) and £23.95 (hardback).

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