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

The sequence works so well as a story and is so nuanced I felt completely absorbed in it

her poems simultaneously evoke another level of pure abstraction

compassion  and numinosity about them which makes this an intriguing and compelling collection

inexhaustible even though anything in it can be said aloud

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