Reviews for The Faber book of political verse

The average rating for The Faber book of political verse based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-06-15 00:00:00 William Foster This book constitutes my first exposure to Les Murray's poetry, and as with most poetry collections, some of the individual verses really speak to me, and some less so. But when the connection is made, in pieces like "Life Cycle of Ideas" and "Memories of the Height-to-weight Ratio" it's powerful stuff, and Murray's iconoclastic view of life is both original and compelling. More to the point, Murray often manages to avoid the sort of willful obscurity that alienates so many contemporary readers from modern poetry, and that's a signal achievement all by itself.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-01 00:00:00 David Lundgren grew on me getting more familiar with LM so magnificently angry in places