POPULAR Crosshill local history guru Jim Campbell will on Thursday launch his book which studies famous Lochgelly poet John Pindar.

Peter Leslie wrote hundreds of poems under the Pindar name and was know as 'The Lochgelly Poet'.

Jim, from St Ronan's Gardens, has been a Pindar follower for many years and has taken many years to finally put the extensive book together which he will officially launch on Thursday evening at the Jennie Lee Library, at Lochgelly Centre at 6pm.

Said Jim: "I have been very fortunate to get a publisher who is backing this book 'Pindar The Complete Works of Peter Leslie'.

"I suppose I have been working on the book since the 1990s but it is in four parts with the last section some of his best poems.

"Peter Leslie chose to write under the name Pindar and it saw him pen hundreds of works on all sorts of happenings and events and indeed, just on life in the town."

Part One of the book is called 'An autobiography of a Private Soldier'. Part Two is some random rhymes. Part Three is some unpublished Pindar poems which Jim has trawled from the columns of the Lochgelly Times; and Part Four is extracts from a booklet of poems published at the end of the last century.

Jim will be joined at the launch by Lochgelly raconteur and singer Willie Hershaw.