{"product_id":"9781784102005","title":"Dirt by William Letford","description":"Billy Letford's Dirt revels in the fallow, the tainted, the off , and the unloved. The poems embrace a good life stitched together with bad circumstances, bungled chances, missed callings. Whether loitering on the street corner, `poackets ful eh ma fingers', or stumbling from a bar `like a monkey in the jungle of traffic, stinking, wild and free', the characters in Letford's poems deliver one thing in spades: heart. `On Friday I visit my seventy-seven-year-old granny. She's smoking a joint. It's not a surprise.' Letford's words are lightly worn yet carefully measured; they move between English and Scots, lyrical and concrete, accumulating what the poet has described as an array of textures. Resisting modernity's unearthly glare, it is a life with grain, with grit, `rotten with wonder', that Letford seeks. The poems dig for a grace within dirt's humble endurance. `There's dignity there. Lay yourself open.'\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305176248693,"sku":"9781784102005","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784102005.jpg?v=1762796969","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784102005","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}