Dirt by Billy Letford Eyewear Publishing and the début Carcanet title

and the début Carcanet title of one of the UK’s rising poetry talents

and towards odd new ways of imagining ourselves

and Contemporary Poetry from the Canary Islands (1992)

her poems simultaneously evoke another level of pure abstraction

His high-definition observation is informed by an ecologist’s eye

Dirt by Billy Letford Eyewear Publishing and the début Carcanet titleBilly Letfords 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 Letfords poems deliver one thing in spades: heart. On Friday I visit my seventy seven year