Newspaper taxis : poetry after the Beatles
2013
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Britain's leading poets celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first number one single, and with it the start of the swinging sixties and a revolution which changed the face of popular music and popular culture forever.Britain's leading poets celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first number one single, and with it the start of the swinging sixties and a revolution which changed the face of popular music and popular culture forever. Casgliad o gerddi gan feirdd blaenllaw o wledydd Prydain sy'n dathlu hanner canrif oddi ar i'r Beatles gyrraedd rhif un yn siart y senglau am y tro cyntaf yn y 1960au - carreg filltir o bwys yn hanes cerddoriaeth bop. You know they caused a revolution 50 years ago the Beatles transformed the face of music, youth, and popular culture. In January 1963 their first single Love Me Do was re-released and shot to number one, heralding the start of both Beatlemania and the swinging sixties. In the next few years the Beatles wrote the template of both pop music and the supergroup. Their songs defined popular culture at a time when it was inspiring social change in Europe and North America, and this book collects poems that both respond to the music and to their influence on the way we lived then and the way we live now. Literally hundreds of millions of people around the world have listened to, and loved, the Beatles music. Their impact on musicians, writers, film-makers and ordinary people has been, simply, enormous. With contributions by a myriad of poets, young and old, including Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Elaine Feinstein, Peter Finch, Adrian Henry, Philip Larkin, Roddy Lumsden, Lachlan MacKinnon, Roger McGough, Sheenagh Pugh, Jeremy Reed and Carol Rumens, this book is a response to the Beatles creativity and capacity to influence successive generations.
Main title:
Newspaper taxis : poetry after the Beatles / edited by Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss and David Woolley.
Author:
Bowen, Phil, 1949-, editor of compilationFurniss, Damian, editor of compilationWoolley, David, 1958-, editor of compilation
Publisher:
Bridgend : Seren, [2013]
Collation:
123 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Contributors include Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Adrian Henri, Philip Larkin, Roger McGough, Lachlan Mackinnon, Carrie Etter, Rhian Edwards, Paul Farley, Elaine Feinstein, Peter Finch, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Draycott, Jeremy Reed, Carol Rumens, Nerys Williams and Thomas Dekker.
ISBN:
9781781720271 (pbk)
Language:
English
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Index terms:
Poetry
BRN:
3844385
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