A review by lokster71
Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice
5.0
This is a beautiful book. I was aware of it but I haven't read any Louis MacNeice at all, even though I've had a copy of his Collected Poems gathering dust on my shelf for a while. But then Backlisted podcast did an episode on it and that forced the issue.
It's a poetic dip into the time of the Munich Conference. War is in the air. But MacNeice manages to make it the political intimate and the intimate political. It makes you aware of how different poetry is to prose.
I'll be re-reading this I think.
It's a poetic dip into the time of the Munich Conference. War is in the air. But MacNeice manages to make it the political intimate and the intimate political. It makes you aware of how different poetry is to prose.
I'll be re-reading this I think.