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Available: 1 October 2009

isbn 978 1905762 743 - £7.99

Singing Bass

Landeg White

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.

PRAISE FOR WHITE'S POETRY

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

Click here to read Steve Dube's Review in the Western Mail, Saturday 9th October