{"product_id":"9781780377469-marratide-selected-poems","title":"Marratide","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected Poems\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Martin (1925-2010) was a poet of extraordinary vision and musicality. Thoroughly grounded in his native North-East England, its pit communities and industry, his song-like poems nevertheless traverse a vast geographical and historical landscape ranging from deep Celtic and Anglo-Saxon sources to the mythology and sacred sites of India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Martin (1925-2010) was a poet of extraordinary vision and musicality. Thoroughly grounded in his native North-East England, its pit communities and industry, his song-like poems nevertheless traverse a vast geographical and historical landscape ranging from deep Celtic and Anglo-Saxon sources to the mythology and sacred sites of India, via a passionate political engagement that never limits song to mere rhetoric. He also drew on children’s games, ballads and street songs in poems showing both political anger and a wider concern for a society losing its common ground, its rituals and rites of passage. \u003cem\u003eMarratide: Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003ebrings together poems from William Martin’s four collections, \u003cem\u003eCracknrigg \u003c\/em\u003e(1983) and \u003cem\u003eHinny Beata\u003c\/em\u003e (1987) from Taxus Press; and \u003cem\u003eMarra Familia\u003c\/em\u003e (1993) and \u003cem\u003eLammas Alanna \u003c\/em\u003e(2000), from Bloodaxe Books. Two comprehensive introductory essays by editors Peter Armstrong and Jake Morris-Campbell discuss the life and poetry of William Martin in this edition published to celebrate his centenary. A QR code printed in the book links to archive audio recordings of poems read (and sung) by William Martin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55636470759798,"sku":"9781780377469","price":12.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34517717_26d12504-8014-48b7-91a0-918521be2ecb.jpg?v=1747967254","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780377469-marratide-selected-poems","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}