Song of a Drifter and Other Ballads

An ex-library copy. Library stamps, labels and markings. Dust-jacket in clear plastic cover, taped to boards and endpapers. ; 54, [2] pages. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 160 x 129mm. Illustrated by Pat Trembleth. With a 3 page Introduction by Kevin Ireland. "This book recalls a voice that none of us will ever forget. Dry, sly, laconic and with the gravelly crackle of a concrete mixer. If you have any trouble with the tricky metre of some of these lines, try saying them aloud, and you'll catch the echo of Crump himself, and get the swing of them. For Crump's words belong to an age-long folk tradition of ballads and songs, and his use of these forms is authentic. There's nothing scrubbed and tidy and ironed about the way he wrote. His phrases were functional certainly, and they work, but you'll always find twists and convulsions and creases in his manner of putting things, and occasionally he also lets you see the rips and mends and stains." - from the Introduction by Kevin Ireland, quoted on dust-jacket blurb.

Product Info

ISBN: 1877161063

ISBN-13: 9781877161063

Publisher: Hazard Press

Year: (1996)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

RenaissanceBooks

Address: PO Box 335 Dunedin, Not Required

Website: https://renaissancebooks.co.nz

Country: New Zealand