{"product_id":"9781780377469","title":"Marratide : Selected Poems by Jake Morris-Campbell","description":"William 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. Marratide: Selected Poems brings together poems from William Martin's four collections, Cracknrigg (1983) and Hinny Beata (1987) from Taxus Press; and Marra Familia (1993) and Lammas Alanna (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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55206291898741,"sku":"9781780377469","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780377469_69d393fa-86fa-4772-8213-cb3010755bca.jpg?v=1748096207","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781780377469","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}