Can I Come Down Now Dad? - John Hegley

Well, dooyoo, you've done it all wrong here. No, this isn't a completely wrongly-placed harangue about any changes. It's just that you've put one of the books by probably the world's best poet on the database, but you've chosen probably the worst one he's written. That isn't to say Can I Come Down Now Dad? isn't a very decent read, for it is. It's just that here the brilliant wordplay and forceful rhythms take a back-seat, for what the back cover calls "pathos". Well, I suppose it was a sign of Mr Hegley maturing a bit, or certainly branching out a bit more. But since this book appeared in 1991, he ...