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Delicacy and Precision: John Carey Reviews ‘Son Songs’ by Tug Dumbly
2019
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— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 27 2019;
— Review of Son Songs 2018 selected work poetry'I could start with a cheap headline: SLAMMER GOES LEGIT. and think of another cheap headline: DESK-POET TAKES CROWD-BATH that might fit me if I turned up at a performance venue. Like most cheap headlines they are crass and wrong-headed. Tug always had a good grasp of poetic tradition, popular and more scholarly, which were never mutually exclusive. For my part, I was always happy to take a “crowd-bath” to find a new audience and I like to read my work aloud and sometimes memorise the pieces.' (Introduction)
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Delicacy and Precision: John Carey Reviews ‘Son Songs’ by Tug Dumbly
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 27 2019;
— Review of Son Songs 2018 selected work poetry'I could start with a cheap headline: SLAMMER GOES LEGIT. and think of another cheap headline: DESK-POET TAKES CROWD-BATH that might fit me if I turned up at a performance venue. Like most cheap headlines they are crass and wrong-headed. Tug always had a good grasp of poetic tradition, popular and more scholarly, which were never mutually exclusive. For my part, I was always happy to take a “crowd-bath” to find a new audience and I like to read my work aloud and sometimes memorise the pieces.' (Introduction)
