Marratide: Selected Poems by William Martin Kate Carruthers Thomas (un)interrupted tongues unfolds Kular’s creative

(un)interrupted tongues unfolds Kular’s creative journey and life as a working-class woman of colour

Matthew Dickman is the Poetry Editor of Tin House magazine

and how women are represented in life and literature

this narrative expands and contracts time

we each ask for a turn

Marratide: Selected Poems by William Martin Kate Carruthers Thomas (un)interrupted tongues unfolds Kular’s creativeWilliam Martin (1925 2010) was a poet of extraordinary vision and musicality. Thoroughly grounded in his native North East England, its pit communities and industry, his song like poems nevertheless traverse a vast geographical and historical landscape ranging from deep Celtic and Anglo Saxon sources to the mythology and sacred sites of India, via a passionate political engagement that never limits song to mere rhetoric. He also drew on children's