Ian Macneill



Ian MacNeill Reviews John Kinsella

With his appearances on ABC TV's 'Critical Mass' program John Kinsella is becoming something of a public intellectual. His severe demeanour and combative stance suggest an aggressive priest, Savaranola maybe. The poems in this collection do not dispel this impression, there is a savagery in them, of tone, image and spirit.

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Perfect Deaths

Isadora. Donald Campbell, trying to catch his father, flipped over and over by a wavelet on the specially calm lake. Marie Collier, `passionate', from a hotel window in New York. Ramon Novarro with a lead dildo – a gift from …

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Prague In the Twenties

Blue fireworks cascade from the overhead line as a tram turns sharply into another crowded street, silk stockings and headache-bands catch the sun. The old murmuring of string band waltzes has a wooden sandy edge so now we charleston closer …

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