Livin' in Drumlister: The Collected Ballads and Verses of W. F. Marshall 'The Bard of Tyrone' (RB198)

Published 1983: Softcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Pictorial stiff card covers. 126 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on covers. (RB198)

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Marshall was no ordinary man, and yet he was ordinary in the sense that he was genuinely a man of the people who could relate to the experiences of his fellow men and women. What made Marshall truly extraordinary was the sheer range of his gifts and talents and the breadth of his interests.

The Poet
W F has been described as ‘The Bard of Tyrone’. Although he went to live in Castlerock in 1928 he never ceased to be a Tyrone man. He was a Tyrone man in exile in Co. Londonderry. A high proportion of his poetic output is contained in collections entitled Verses from Tyrone (1922), Ballads and Verses from Tyrone (1929), Ballads from Tyrone (1939) and Tyrone Ballads (1943). In his preface to his Ballads and Verses from Tyrone Marshall noted that:

Many of the ballads and verses which make up this book have been published in various journals: The Spectator, The Poetry Review, The Irish Presbyterian and the Magazine of Dungannon Royal School. Ten of them are reprinted from Verses from Tyrone.

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