“The most brilliant music and poetry band....” Dame Professor Carol Ann Duffy Poet Laureate Poems, classic and obscure, are given a new voice in songs crafted by South London band LiTTLe MACHiNe: Walter Wray, Steve Halliwell and Chris Hardy. Acoustic instruments, strong melodies and watertight harmonies create songs that draw on three thousand years of poetry from the Homer to Hip-Hop. William Blake, Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy…all get the treatment. Poetry is the best words in the best order and LiTTLe MACHiNe have been just as careful in creating new music that can move the feet for words that move the soul. “Little Machine’s sophisticated way with poetry made me fall in love with old favourites and new ones all over again. They sing, strum, beat, get you tapping your feet, make you laugh and break your heart, every word sung clear as a bell. I swear the Bard himself has joined this band.” (Gillian Clarke National Poet of Wales) A Blackbird Sang is a collection of poems relating to the first world war