I'm a nightshift worker myself at times. I love writing and reading about people at that particular period. They seem to exude poetry. The one thing that scares me is a town as bad off, if not worse than, as Michael Bolton. That's pretty low.
Reviewed by Jessica Horton (Reader)
Reviewed on August 11, 2002
Very nice. Well done. The setting itself is unexpected, and it only gets better from there! Very realistic, Greg. I can see this rag-tag band without any effort at all, and as the poem ends, I can imagine looking through the rain-soaked windows, watching the whole scene play out. Nicely done.
Reviewed by Masarat Daud (Reader)
Reviewed on August 11, 2002
Very good write Greg. The ending was the best because it doesn't categorise the poem as a "happily ever after" ending...it just continues and that's the best part.
Reviewed by Sailor Neptune (Reader)
Reviewed on August 11, 2002
ooooh haunting true though what isnt of the day lives out in the night....
excellent
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
excellent
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