
Songbook
Ken Edwards(Author)
Shearsman Books (Publisher)
Published on 15. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
114 pages
978-1-84861-067-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book, spanning two decades of work, contains songs that have never been and never will be sung; anti-lyric and narrative poems for which a musical equivalent has been constructed; and text written specifically for musical purposes. The volume is completed with scores composed by Elaine Edwards of settings of three poems from Ken Edwards' earlier book eight + six.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
155 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-067-5 (9781848610675)
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Person
Ken Edwards was born in Gibraltar in 1950, went to King's College London in 1968, where he studied under the late Eric Mottram, and lived in London until 2004, when he moved with his wife Elaine to Hastings. Since 1993, he has run the literary small press, Reality Street Editions, which was formed through the amalgamation of his own Reality Studios imprint with Wendy Mulford's Street Editions. Ken has also been involved in composing and performing music since the early 1990s. His day job is journalism, and at present, he works as an editor for the Royal College of Nursing.