LEADER 03064nam 2200481 450 001 9910165056803321 005 20230808201340.0 010 $a1-78410-203-2 010 $a1-78410-201-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000001023424 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4810054 035 $a(OCoLC)960942070 035 $a(IN-ChSCO)22646 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4783001 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001023424 100 $a20180316d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDirt /$fby William Letford 210 1$aManchester [England] :$cCarcanet,$d2016. 210 2$aLondon :$cExact Editions Ltd,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (65 pages) 311 $a1-78410-200-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle Page -- Contents -- In the back alleys -- Crocodile -- In a bamboo shack on the edge of a beach -- Monuments of the mind -- Temple -- 'Rain' -- 'Algae' -- Gerron -- Purification -- Baptism -- Feedback loop -- Prayer -- 'The Crack' -- The bevy -- The performance -- Gon yursel -- Wisdom -- Perfect pitch -- 'OjOs' -- Curry -- The north -- Dream -- Talknaboot? -- Marriage -- Naked -- Dirt -- Young Rambo -- 'OjOs' -- This is it -- Web -- 'OjOs' -- 'The insistent whistle' -- Sadness -- The long dark -- Delight -- Let it go -- The interview -- The grace -- The proverbial morning -- Corporate climate -- The magic -- Busy bees -- A thirst -- Wake -- Any way you can -- Tuesday blues -- You. -- CirclesThe grain -- Every line is imaginary -- A garden -- 'A series of decisions' -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright. 330 3 $aBilly 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.? 606 $aEnglish poetry$y20th century 606 $aEnglish poetry 610 10$aLiterature 615 0$aEnglish poetry 615 0$aEnglish poetry. 676 $a808.81 700 $aLetford$b William (Poet)$01377555 801 0$bIN-ChSCO 801 1$bIN-ChSCO 801 2$bExact Editions Ltd 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910165056803321 996 $aDirt$93414984 997 $aUNINA