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The average rating for King's Cross pub poets II based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.
| Review # 1 was written on 2016-04-06 00:00:00 Kelly Kennedy I don't know enough about poetry to give an erudite, scholarly explanation for my rating here. I just know that a significant number of the poems in this book touched my soul. It's a very slim volume - only some 70 pages of text, but the poems which form that text include so many gems that I couldn't comfortably list them here. I realise that poetic taste is individual, but this book was exactly to my taste - the wistfulness of poems like "A vacuum cleaner", with its closing stanza: "I see your eyes parting the curtains/of my bedroom window/ feeling the light outside, the air/& the emptiness/& I realise/You won't slip behind my headboard/like laundry/You'll slide out my window/& out of my arms/Like notes from a cash register/Like coins into a vacuum cleaner" ...or "Minutes in the week", leavened with the wry humour of poems such as "Hours & hours of schlock" made this compelling, wonderful reading. I'm going to have to hunt out Nick Ascroft's other books... |
| Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-03 00:00:00 Rhonda Norbury Interesting book on a train trip across Russia. |
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