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Description for Singing Bass
Paperback. In the 1960s, Landeg White was chief arranger and bass pan player for Trinidad's Camboulays Steel Band. This title features his 8th collection of poetry. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102. 120 pages. In the 1960s, Landeg White was chief arranger and bass pan player for Trinidad's Camboulays Steel Band. This title features his 8th collection of poetry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 7. Weight: 102.
In the 1960s, Landeg White was chief arranger and bass pan player for Trinidad's Camboulays Steel Band. Forty years on, that same music can be heard in this, his 8th collection of poetry. Versatile in form, sensuous in language, cosmopolitan in range, White renews poetry's oldest themes. His celebrations of love, language, anger and mortality are securely earthed in Portugal where he now lives.
In the 1960s, Landeg White was chief arranger and bass pan player for Trinidad's Camboulays Steel Band. Forty years on, that same music can be heard in this, his 8th collection of poetry. Versatile in form, sensuous in language, cosmopolitan in range, White renews poetry's oldest themes. His celebrations of love, language, anger and mortality are securely earthed in Portugal where he now lives.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Parthian Books
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
69
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905762743
SKU
V9781905762743
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Ref
99-2
About Landeg White
Landeg White was born in south Wales and lives in Portugal, having taken in along the way universities in Trinidad, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Zambia and York. His books include studies of VS Naipaul; of Mozambican and Malawian history; and of southern African praise poetry; along with seven collections of poetry including Where the Angolans are Playing Football (Parthian, 2003) and ... Read more
Reviews for Singing Bass
"The poems are unflaggingly good, with an audenesque ease of utterance overlaying anger, and a sensual vividness that has one wiping the dust from the eyes." The Observer "...accessible...evocative of place" Times Literary Supplement "White addresses fundamental issues unflinchingly." The Big Issue "A talent for vivid description...compelling in its evocation" Carrie Etter, New Welsh Review