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With enormous enthusiasm for the language of ordinary northerners, this scenic portrait of coastal peoples combines history, etymology, and recollections to record a folk culture that strives to survive against current worldwide trends of uniformity. The examination delves deep into the boat and fishing traditions that shape this small angler community, including smuggling, the scenery, and the surrounding wildlife. The increasing threat that globalization poses to these sea populations makes this an important preservation--as well as an excellent source of factual information and reference material about those who live on the North Sea.

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For more than one fellow poet, he was the only one of whom they would use the word genius. --Guardian

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Bill Griffiths was a translator; a book designer, editor, and publisher; an archivist; a social historian; and a scholar of Old English. Recognized as one of the greatest dialect poets of the 20th century, he was the author of several hundred published works, including ""Binaries. Not Sonnets,"" ""Cycles,"" ""The Dictionary of the North East Dialect,"" ""Durham"""" and Other Sequences,"" ""Future Exiles,"" and ""War with Windsor,"" """"as well as the Wor Language series.

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