robin_go's review
3.0
"Sometimes the writing is no more
Than a pentouch, a delicate dragonfly music
That captures the weird stealth of its own progress
Filling out a dull envelope of air"
A wild, bumpy, but overridingly-likeable ride across the provinces of a personal imagination. It often feels like a uneditted stream of consciousness - a busy boxed-set with b'sides and album tracks but full of re-readable similes and moments you want to share.
While absurd, it's frequently got moments of genuine intimate candour - which you might think inconceivable in a surrealist collection, but you'd be wrong. Conventional metaphor is (and always was) quite inadequate to describe human relationships. And here, amid all the dracula charades, is the proof.
What are my picks? Well 'Bean Soup' is spectacularly evocative and 'Pyjama Story' the most brilliant poem I've read in a considerable time.
"Mice Glue! Mice Glue!"
Something to savour.
Than a pentouch, a delicate dragonfly music
That captures the weird stealth of its own progress
Filling out a dull envelope of air"
A wild, bumpy, but overridingly-likeable ride across the provinces of a personal imagination. It often feels like a uneditted stream of consciousness - a busy boxed-set with b'sides and album tracks but full of re-readable similes and moments you want to share.
While absurd, it's frequently got moments of genuine intimate candour - which you might think inconceivable in a surrealist collection, but you'd be wrong. Conventional metaphor is (and always was) quite inadequate to describe human relationships. And here, amid all the dracula charades, is the proof.
What are my picks? Well 'Bean Soup' is spectacularly evocative and 'Pyjama Story' the most brilliant poem I've read in a considerable time.
"Mice Glue! Mice Glue!"
Something to savour.
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