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Can I Come Down Now Dad? - John Hegley

Description: ISBN 0413773108 / Author: John Hegley / Genre: Drama / Poetry / Criticism / Poems about Luton and string, dogs and logs, trains and Roman ... more

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Newest Review: ... many of these poems are short - one is of just 6 syllables. Poetry books never take much more than an hour to read through ... more

... once, unless you need to cogitate particularly on any items. Hegley books, therefore, always appear to be rather poor value, but are highly entertaining. There will be no spurious, high-brow metaphors here, or ridiculously extended vocab. However, as I suggested above, here the themes are broadened out considerably from the usual Hegley topics, and the style becomes looser. Having heard Hegley recite his work you can immediately pick up any of his pieces and hear him say it in his unique style in your head. Here...more

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Can I Come Down Now Dad? - John Hegley: We all have our off days (900 words)
by - written on 17/09/02 (Very useful, 38 readings)
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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 ... Read the complete review