{"product_id":"taped-from-somebodys-brother-mark-davidson-9781916830530","title":"Taped From Somebody's Brother","description":"\u003cp\u003eBack in the mists of time, before the interweb and all of this streaming malarkey, it was really rather difficult to find new music that wasn't played on Top of the Pops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the joys of life then, was finding a seam of music that you could mine and most importantly of all, get 'taped' and then spend time sat-sitting and listening to treasure-like-musical-wonders on your Walkman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, until the batteries ran out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeedless to say, we all created networks of friends of friends and if home taping was killing music, it didn't feel like it. In fact most of the music I borrowed then, I am still paying to buy and listen to now, so perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course there were downsides, sometimes you never knew who the songs were by and other times quality control wasn't the best. In fact, an ex girlfriend of mine taped me \u003cem\u003eSergeant Pepper's\u003c\/em\u003e from her dad's well-played original vinyl. It was in mono, so only came out of the left headphone, but I loved it and played it to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact it was only years later when I had spent ages learning to play George Harrison's eight minute sitar solo in \u003cem\u003eWithin You Without You\u003c\/em\u003e that I realised that it wasn't actually that long, and she just hadn't noticed that the record had stuck in one place, and the final flourish that I was assuming was some kind of grunge Stylophone explosion of creativity, was in fact her knocking the needle so that the song moved on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn truth, the 'proper' version still doesn't sound right to me even now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut getting a tape of a band you hadn't heard before was magic, and it has always struck me that music and poetry work, and are shared, in much the same ways, and so that was the prompt that drove the work in this anthology. We asked poets to introduce a favourite, and perhaps obscure, poet, artist, musician, song, poem or painting to the world, as a recommendation, in the form of a poem. We wanted them to write a poem that gives somebody a piece of gold that you think will stay with them forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wee anthology found many such nuggets and includes work from: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeil Windsor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWendy Goulstone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGP Hyde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraci Hugelmaier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGifford Savage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarmella de Mayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiriam Moore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhil Santus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSharron Green\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeather Moulson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Ings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOlivia Todd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTina MacNaughton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMick Yates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJulie Anne Gilligan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmanda Hill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMandy Willis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKate Copeland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Davidson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1916830536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916830530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hedgehog Poetry Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.08d","brand":"Mark Davidson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579879964927,"sku":"9781916830530","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed5d0547-8991-4865-88c6-86d7e46106a4.jpg?v=1763877295","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/taped-from-somebodys-brother-mark-davidson-9781916830530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}