Once Upon A Time In The Black Country: A 1950s Gangster Novel

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’ Ablaze with energy and full of the rich dialect of the West Midlands, this is an incandescent debut from a poet of dazzling talent and verve. TQ9 5SN. The poems move from the magic of childhood – bostin fittle at Nanny’s, summers before school – into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings, and the promise of new life. Wolverhampton Wanderers Graphic design 01803 866828Totnes' (not) award-winning independent Record Shop. In 1986 a young Steve Bull and Andy Thompson crossed the Black country divide transferring from West Brom to the Wolves. In Berry’s hands, the ordinary is transformed: her characters shift shapes, her eye is unusual, her ear attuned to the sounds of the Black Country, with ‘vowels ferrous as nails, consonants / you could lick the coal from.

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