Singing Bass

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.

ISBN	1905762747	DEWEY	821.914
ISBN13	9781905762743 (What's this?)	DEWEY edition	DC22
Publisher	Parthian Books	Pages	120
Imprint	Parthian Books	Published in	Cardigan
Format	Paperback	Academic level	General
Publication date	24 Sep 2009

		Moon-Struck		1
		These Dusks		3
		About Cicadas		4
		The Catch		6
		No Motto Please: We're British		7
		Birds and Bees for my Son		9
		George Bernard Shaw		10
		Retirement Project		11
		Do Not Go Gentle		13
		With Whatever End in View		14
		Saints' Days		17
		Loudspeaker		20
		So Much More		23
		Fillers		24
		Nothing Older		28
		On Fearing Bay Trees		29
		Harvesting Courgettes		31
		Request Slip		32
		Two pigeons		34
		Proofs		35
		Vagrant		37
		No Dictator		39
		When the Doggerel Turns Serious		41
		Epistle to Dr Mapanje		43
		End-rhymes		47
		Padre Pedro's Cassock is Black		48
		Breaking News		51
		The Havoc		52
		The Death of Trees		53
		Kunte Kinte, etc.		54
		The Balance		57
		Singing Bass		59
		The Evidence		60
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"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

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