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Bevel
William Letford
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Description for Bevel
Paperback. Features poems that come from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily life: work and love, seasons and cities, and his writing is alive with the wonder and comedy of the mundane. Num Pages: 61 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106. 61 pages. Features poems that come from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily life: work and love, seasons and cities, and his writing is alive with the wonder and comedy of the mundane. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 156 x 216 x 5. Weight: 106.
Bevel is William Letford's first book, but his poems have already earned him a large following thanks to his brilliant performances and through Carcanet's New Poetries V anthology. Letford makes poems from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily life: work and love, seasons and cities, and his writing is alive with the wonder and comedy of the mundane. Bevel is filled with voices - 'an he says / A love the summer / it's hoat / ye kin wear yer shoarts...' - and with the knowledge that becomes engrained in the body: 'The weight ... Read more
Bevel is William Letford's first book, but his poems have already earned him a large following thanks to his brilliant performances and through Carcanet's New Poetries V anthology. Letford makes poems from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily life: work and love, seasons and cities, and his writing is alive with the wonder and comedy of the mundane. Bevel is filled with voices - 'an he says / A love the summer / it's hoat / ye kin wear yer shoarts...' - and with the knowledge that becomes engrained in the body: 'The weight ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
61
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
106g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847771926
SKU
V9781847771926
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Ref
99-50
About William Letford
William Letford has worked as a roofer, on and off, since he was fifteen years old. He has received a New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust and an Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary which allowed him to spend three months in the mountains of northern Italy helping to restore a medieval village. He has an M.Litt in Creative Writing ... Read more
Reviews for Bevel
'The pleasure I have gained from William Letford's poems... will, I am confident, stay with me for ever.' - Nicholas Lezard, the Guardian