A Twist of Malice

........and Happy Easter too!



A Twist of Malice is the title of a collection of poems by grey-haired (one assumes) women. You can find a proper review here http://www.saltpublishing.com/horizon/issues/02/text/boden_julie_review.htm (scroll down). I read it through in one sitting last night. Top marks for accessibility and entertainment value, although the effect of loads of poems with basically a similar array of messages (leading on from the various sections the poets have to work in) and props (contemporary British life zzzzzzz) is a bit numbing. It's the kind of stuff you could read on the train, but you're unlikely to remember it for the rest of your days. I counteracted the effect of all that reality and short-term pyrotechnics by reading some surrealist love poetry - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/098710.html - more to my taste, although the celebratory tone of the surrealist stuff is arguably just as dubious and gendered as the tone of the more cynical grey hens. Best really just to go and eat a cake.