On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, John Wilkinson wrote:
> [snip]
> Keston Sutherland, Mincemeat Seesaw, Barque
> [snip]
> a lyric Elizabethan in its density and flexibility and
> adventure, a decided turn.
Simply to endorse this enthusiasm for this particular title, which is not
to say I don't enthuse about the others John lists too. But I'd been
meaning to scratch some words together for Keston's most recent work, and
curiously "Elizabethan" was one of the words I'd scratched. I've just read
his two preceding publications (Girls At Trusion and At The Motel Partial
Opportunity) but it seems to me that in Mincemeat Seesaw Keston's found a
line and a flexibility which he's confident with, and a warmth, yes, from
an age when confidence and warmth were in good supply. No, I'm not talking
about "merrie england"...
Thanks, anyway, Keston. And thanks to John too, for enthusing.
R
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