Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780974690223
Pub Date: September 2004
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Price:
£9.50
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Description:
In part a chronicle of misfortune and heartbreak, The Dark Months of May tells of life on the run. With his characteristic bawdiness and sonic aplomb, Pickard seeks refuge in the geography of British border ballads, accompanied by eighteenth-century horse thieves and "desperate reprobates." There, he finds only cold consolation: "leave me now and let me sleep / your thieving words are all I'll keep."