Don't Mention the Night Hazim Saghieh Tait follows the reiver people

Tait follows the reiver people as they are forced from their rural heartlands into the industrial and post-industrial North East of England in search of work

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and encroached upon by violence

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and on the major African poets Niyi Osundare

Don't Mention the Night Hazim Saghieh Tait follows the reiver peopleWriting about Nick Drake leads seventeen year old David to Nottingham, where, in the late 1970s, he encounters the formidable singer songwriter Kevin Coyne and, most weeks, goes to see local legends, Gaffa. This original, beguiling memoir weaves Belbins story,from teenage depression to becoming a best selling author, together with those of Drake, Coyne and Gaffa, drawing on interviews conducted over forty four years. David Belbins books include The