Sputnik's Cousin: New poems
Transit Lounge, $24 pb, 144 pp
Poetry
Sputnik's Cousin: New poems by Kent MacCarter
by Nathanael Pree •
Kent MacCarter’s third collection of poems comprises a patchwork of forms and phenomena, in parts influenced by and dedicated to poets of the New York School and the ‘Generation of 1968’. MacCarter’s own cosmopolitan greetings share the offbeat tones and imagery of precursors, including Frank O’Hara and John Forbes. Touches of the former’s dry humour permeate Sputnik’s Cousin, alongside edgier local presences apparent in the poetry.
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