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The Mersey Sound (1967)

by Adrian Henri(Favorite Author)

4.33 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0141189266 (ISBN13: 9780141189260)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

review 1: I read this on a recent trip to Liverpool when I had some time to sit in between the two cathedrals on Hope Street, where I think Roger McGough had a flat once.It's a fine collection of poems that reflect the vibrant and sometimes slightly bizarre minds of their creators. I guess at the time of writing Henri, Patten and McGough were still trying to find themselves as much as they were trying to, not define, but capture a glimpse of the vibe of the late sixties in the place where so much of British pop culture began.I only wish more of the poems could have found themselves onto a Scaffold record.
review 2: Still my favourite collection of poetry that's ever been published. To be read aloud or enjoyed privately there's a depth of love and warmth to all of these p... moreoems. Humour flows through nearly every piece and drapes the collection in the joi de vivre the period they were composed in so espoused. There's something slightly beyond that however, a slightly hungover, world-weary need. I think that, and the presence of the city, is often overlooked in these poems. But I can't really expand more on how much I love this set of poems. Poetry for the masses. less

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