{"product_id":"9781780377469","title":"Marratide","description":"Author: William Martin\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781780377469\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloodaxe\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\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":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852897013918,"sku":"ADS-9781780377469","price":42.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781780377469.jpg?v=1779064506","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781780377469","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}