Selfish City will not Fall
By Bing Selfish
A combination of Rimbaud (with a better sense of direction), Shakespeare (with more bile), Bukowski (with less fightin’) and Blake (with more prophetic attitude), but better...and funnier More
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- Category: Poetry » U.K. Poetry
- Published: June 21, 2015
- Words: 19,570
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781310852084
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Reviews of Selfish City will not Fall by Bing Selfish
John Harman
reviewed
on June 30, 2015
I liked it a lot.
(reviewed 2 days after purchase)
Caitlin Hogan
reviewed
on June 29, 2015
A triumph of words in order
(reviewed the day of purchase)
ennuiadams
reviewed
on June 29, 2015
(forgot the stars)
(reviewed the day of purchase)
ennuiadams
reviewed
on June 29, 2015
(no rating)
Finally! A poet in English not bogged down by Oxbridge stodge, arthouse gibberish, weak laddish political sloganeering or faux-Beat macho posturing. This combines savage and very funny attacks on both likely and unlikely targets and a real sensitivity and depth of philosophy. It's like someone took Rumi out for a drink in a bar that happened to be full of a real bunch of tosspots that needed taking down a peg or two, but that also had a massive picture window out on to the most beautiful, psychedelic and surreal landscape possible. Allied with a massive dose of self-knowledge and self irony, this collection puts 99% or so of contemporary poets, and indeed other artists, to shame. I want more!
Finally! A poet in English not bogged down by Oxbridge stodge, arthouse gibberish, weak laddish political sloganeering or faux-Beat macho posturing. This combines savage and very funny attacks on both likely and unlikely targets and a real sensitivity and depth of philosophy. It's like someone took Rumi out for a drink in a bar that happened to be full of a real bunch of tosspots that needed taking down a peg or two, but that also had a massive picture window out on to the most beautiful, psychedelic and surreal landscape possible. Allied with a massive dose of self-knowledge and self irony, this collection puts 99% or so of contemporary poets, and indeed other artists, to shame. I want more!
(reviewed the day of purchase)