Sunday, March 06, 2011

Precision Engineering: A Review.


This is not about what you think. A poetry collection by, Jim Murdoch.

Murdoch is not a poet of excess. Murdoch does not mess about. Murdoch gets to the point, and then gets off the page. In some respects the poems are sterile, not in the sense of imagination, but of being thoroughly clean and free of destructive elements.



Read the complete article by McGuire here


5 comments:

Titus said...

Love the matching of review to review!

Titus said...

Or even review to reviewed! Sorry, tired...

Jimmy said...

So, who and what is really Murdoch in your own mind?

McGuire said...

Hello Jimmy,

A writer I know, via the internet, from Glasgow, who writes a fair clear short poem, and a long detail fair essay.

Hope the review conveyed as much.

Hello again.

Rachel Fenton said...

For once who writes such abundant and rich essays, the poems do seem clinical in comparison but I think that's ok. Concise often reveals more than grandiose attempts at explication. Enjoyed the full review, too.