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Reckoning with hard truths

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August 2006, no. 283

Necessary Evil by Craig Sherborne

Black Inc., $24.95 pb, 73 pp

Reckoning with hard truths

by
August 2006, no. 283

Craig sherborne is a poet, playwright and journalist. I remember being struck by the poetic quality of a delightful passage in his memoir, Hoi Polloi (2005), where he sketches a child’s view of flirtatious men chatting up younger women at the races: ‘The Members Bar. Race Five. Time of the day when men take women by the waist.’ Peter Craven commends that book as ‘scurrilous and unashamed’ and ‘a comic outrage’. Sherborne brings the same sharp eye, but a somewhat subdued humour, to his new volume of poetry, Necessary Evil.

Necessary Evil

Necessary Evil

by Craig Sherborne

Black Inc., $24.95 pb, 73 pp

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