Literary reviews by Tim Love.
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Showing posts with label 'Tails'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'Tails'. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 September 2021

"Tails" by Kona MacPhee (Bloodaxe, 2004)

Poems from Acumen, Poetry Wales, The Wolf, etc

I rather liked "Perfect Blue" (plus the notes that accompanied it) and "What long miles". I'm having trouble with this book though.

"The ghost toe" is a fun compendium of ideas, but why call it poetry? Why put it into triplets of lines?

I wonder if "Hugh's boomerang" has anything to do with Cambridge's Hugh Hunt?

"IVF" is a sestina.

p.36 ("Ice II") puzzles me.