Social media’s Yorkshire Prose has created a poem which is scientifically proven to warm listeners this winter.
The piece ‘Joy of the Fireplace’ was crafted around the feeling of being sat by a fire on a cold winter night, featuring words that are said to spark memories and nostalgia, which would be a good comfort for people over the coming Blue Monday on 17 January.
The Met Office is also warning that cold weather is set to remain across the Yorkshire and Humber region over the next few days.
Ben Taylor, 30, Yorkshire dialect poet from Wakefield, said: "Sitting by t' fire is a favourite place of mine to write. If I've had an idea while I've been out wi' t' dog on a crisp wintery day, sat thawing out int glow of the fire is a great place to turn that spark of a thought into a piece of writing.
“There's summat about the crackling sounds and just that fireside feeling, that helps int creative process."
To assess the power of the warming poem written last November, scientists from Thrill Laboratory tested the response of listening participants through determining their heart rates and analyzing 43 different muscle groups for signs of increased pleasure using FACS (facial action coding system).
The results of the experiment revealed that all participants experienced increased feelings of warmth just by listening to the poem. Compared to their neutral states, overall listeners felt a 13% rise in their feelings of warmth.
The line “That's why t' fireplace becomes t' heart o' t' 'ome” was the most powerful, yielding the highest feelings of warmth.
The Royal Navy petty officer is well known across social media, often sharing videos of his literary creations online. He writes about anything from pints to roast dinners in his distinctive Yorkshire dialect style, building a large following of fans across his platforms. He currently has 35.4k followers on twitter alone.
Wilma Brooks, spokesperson for the Coal Merchants Federation of Great Britain (CMF) who commissioned the poem, said: "The feeling a fire can give is almost indescribable but Yorkshire Prose has done it perfectly. A fire can take you back to childhood memories, allows the mind to relax and unwind and, importantly, warms your cockles in the cold winter months.”
The CMF is encouraging the nation to save their real fires by turning to smokeless fuel this winter. This is following new legislation ‘Ready to Burn’ introduced in England earlier in 2021, which encourages the use of smokeless fuels, limits the sale of house coal and bans wet wood and high sulphur manufactured fuels.
View Yorkshire Prose’s Joy of the Fireplace, and experience the warming sensation here.
Ben Taylor, 30, Aka Yorkshire Prose
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