Sorry Helen to disagree, but that film was ugly, amateurish in many aspects
(like the awful acting), embarrassing when it came to the portrayal of
poets and poetry readings, and those nude tableaus were laughable. In fact,
I did laugh out loud at it - not with it.
I too went back to the book after - and found it as slight as the first
time I read it. The MM to me is no big deal, either as a book or as a film.
Dorothy Porter says she was very surprised at the popularity of the book -
and I think she was right. Her humility is appealing. It was a halfway good
idea but the poetry style was sort-of-minimalist and this restricted the
breadth of the books novelistic range. Les Murray uses a more expansive
poetic in writing verse novels, and his work better. I haven't read the
Alan Wearne newie, so can't comment.
Regards -
Andrew
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