Waking for work in the winter Becoming For the journey It's aboot the labour Be prepared [coffee shop window] Wit is it By the time we met We are Elderly ladies and afternoon tea This spring evening Fusion expands Worker A bassline Newsflash Hollow words in the black dog days Moths Taking a headbutt Working away In the mountains of northern Italy No holding back Breakfast in Baiardo No distractions [it rains] Outside the city Sunburst [T-shirt wrapped around my head] The light and dark of Adeona A bad day Orchards Helsinki, Finland Mhari and Annika Our life Cafe culture Don't you think i know Let's just be Sex poem number 1 Prowl: Sex poem number 2 Sex poem number 3 Impact theory Thurs hunnurs a burds oan the roofs They speak of the gods For the spirit Chimneys The songs we love Schrodinger Sunday, with the television off Winter in the world A poem
William Letford has worked as a roofer, on and off, since he was fifteen years old. He has received a New Writer's Award from the Scottish Book Trust and an Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary which allowed him to spend three months in the mountains of northern Italy helping to restore a medieval village. He has an M.Litt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.
'The pleasure I have gained from William Letford's poems... will, I am confident, stay with me for ever.' - Nicholas Lezard, the Guardian
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