{"product_id":"marratide","title":"Marratide","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781780377469\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (US)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloodaxe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Martin (1925-2010) was a poet of extraordinary vision and musicality.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarratide: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e brings together poems from William Martin's four collections \u003ci\u003eCracknrigg\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) and \u003ci\u003eHinny Beata\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) from Taxus Press; and \u003ci\u003eMarra Familia\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) and \u003ci\u003eLammas Alanna\u003c\/i\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA QR code printed in the book links to archive audio recordings of poems read (and sung) by William Martin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41506932949125,"sku":"PR401396","price":54.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNXPKRPKS3ZO.jpg?v=1769648040","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/marratide","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}