Reviews for Lucasta, 1649

The average rating for Lucasta, 1649 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-25 00:00:00 Ryan Straub It's a decent collection of poems, but for me personally, they don't enthrall me like other collections of poems do.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-15 00:00:00 Linda Upham Brian Patten was the first poet I found for myself, exploring the world opened up by the Penguin "Mersey Sound" anthology. So re-reading this book, found on a bookshelf in my mum's house, is a way of stepping back 40-some years, which is weird, and remembering how good I thought the book was then. It's no longer the best poetry I've ever read, but there's still poems I like, and 'Song for Last Year's Wife' is good, and Little Johnny hunted down to a swing-park last stand by lolly-pop-sniffing tracker dogs is still a sort of hero.