neiljung78's reviews
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Some good poems, some that maybe didn’t come off. Poetry can be unforgiving.

Very readable, funny and generous but with sone welcome hard edges.

This book has some of the best poems written in English in it.

a later Spark and a pretty good one. There’s a passing reference to AIDS and one of the opening quotes is ‘the affair ended in wounds and the party was finally broken up by the shedding of blood’. So squint and you could maybe wonder of part if this was about AIDS… but there’s nothing so obvious as a metaphor and even when death seems to follow one particular character, that’s all sketched in with Sparkian allusions to the supernatural, coincidence and comic misjudgment.

More funny and bitchy and less melancholy than the title suggests 

A solution I only sort of saw coming but the wind up to the delivery was a bit too ponderous for me.

My first Delaney and I will certainly read more. Some very good set pieces and evokes a properly strange alien-ness.

Didn’t like this one as much as the last too in part so to more frequent reminders of how much of a massive Tory snob the author is.

This tried my patience. I know when I say that nothing really happens, someone could counter ‘ah that’s the point’ but if the point is to hang out with the characters, I’d like a bit more friction or darkness. You need some edge to have true hope and this is about as edgy as one of those twee comic strips about mental health that gets shared on a social media. Like those it might appeal to some folk, might even be wise and true in its way but it just irritated me.