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lushr's review
4.0
Utterly readable, fascinating, heart warming, this is such good writing. You just don't get to read GOOD writing that often. Especially about something that lifts the lid, or let's you look behind the closed door of the creators mind.
It doesn't hurt that this book is short! 80 pages short. It also doesn't hurt that I too am an Australian with a mingling relationship with the black dog, and a longing for a creative career, where Les Murray can look back on a brilliant one.
Poetry, prose, are his weapons against this dog, and brutal honesty with himself. In an atmosphere where the Australian public has not generally given him a very pleasant time.
If there's hope for him though, you have a sense that there's hope for the rest of us.
It doesn't hurt that this book is short! 80 pages short. It also doesn't hurt that I too am an Australian with a mingling relationship with the black dog, and a longing for a creative career, where Les Murray can look back on a brilliant one.
Poetry, prose, are his weapons against this dog, and brutal honesty with himself. In an atmosphere where the Australian public has not generally given him a very pleasant time.
If there's hope for him though, you have a sense that there's hope for the rest of us.
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