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Damaged Glamour by John Forbes

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June 1998, no. 201

Damaged Glamour by John Forbes

Brandl & Schlesinger, $17.95 pb, 60 pp

Damaged Glamour by John Forbes

by
June 1998, no. 201

The poet John Forbes died suddenly in January 1998. He was not glamorous, but his work was, for reasons that are not immediately apparent. Certainly, he was the most accomplished, along with the immensely learned Martin Johnston, of the young poets who swam into orbit in the 1970s. He was also the writer who most convincingly bridged the gap between a radical art and the relatively conservative, yet difficult, kinds of cultural theory which are expounded in the universities. Such newly collected poems as ‘post-colonial biscuit’, ‘Ode to Cultural Studies’ and ‘Queer Theory’ body forth, in their disembodied way, this concern to be a bridge-maker between academic talk and the melodious realms of poetry.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe reviews 'Damaged Glamour' by John Forbes

Damaged Glamour

by John Forbes

Brandl & Schlesinger, $17.95 pb, 60 pp

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