{"id":1304,"date":"2012-11-13T21:53:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/?post_type=product&p=1304"},"modified":"2018-04-19T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:28:56","slug":"mary-dalton-merrybegot","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fredsrecords.com\/site\/shop\/mary-dalton-merrybegot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Dalton – Merrybegot"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the greatest of Newfoundland’s glories is an oral culture which has produced a store of songs, riddles, rhymes, proverbs and curses as rich as any to be found in the English-speaking world.  The speech of Newfoundland – laced with image and metaphor, full of ripples and runs, close to hand and eye and mouth – is in its many varieties a treasure-house of language.  These poems seek to celebrate that vital store.<\/p>\n

The “Dictionary of Newfoundland English”, with its choir of voices, has been both an important influence and, in the case of ten or so poems, a direct source.  Most of the poems, however, have grown out of living speech filtered through memory and imagination.<\/p>\n

– Mary Dalton<\/p>\n

Read by Anita Best<\/p>\n

With Patrick Boyle on trumpet<\/p>\n

This Canadian audiobook (aka audio book ) was produced in Newfoundland and Labrador by Rattling Books.  Audiobooks from Rattling Books include fiction, poetry and non-fiction titles.<\/em><\/p>\n