Marratide: Selected Poems by William Martin Holland Park Press 'The Old Woman Who Changed

'The Old Woman Who Changed Herself into a Man'

religion – and its lively combination of intelligence

natural history and Classical ruins of Italy

and what they can give us today

Marratide: Selected Poems by William Martin Holland Park Press 'The Old Woman Who ChangedWilliam 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