Marra Familia

Martin's poetry is inspired by the social, cultural, and religious life of Northumbria, both past and present. He builds his world on myth, Anglo-Saxon literature and art, children's games, ballads, and street songs, as well as on the current struggles of pit communities in the Durham coal field. His poems express political anger as well as a wider concern for a society that is losing its common ground, its rituals, and its rites of passage.