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blimey. what a bitter twisted little fart McCauley is. "The Australian" is a dirty digger rag, right? As a side-note, I notice the page has a meta-refresh tag. Those like me who had to take their time wading through the acidity will find themselves deposited back at the beginning of the poem when the browser obeys the refresh command. Surely some subtle form of torture. On 1/26/07, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It seems that misogyny and homophobia really make you a good bloke. > Otherwise you got no balls. Anyway, that's more or less what Patrick > McCauley says in today's Australian. (It being Australia Day, after > all). > > http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21119511-601,00.html > > Who the hell decided to publish this crap and call it a poem? No > wonder poetry has such a bad name...Andrew Motion has _nothing_ on > this. > > I am incredibly depressed. > > Best > > A > > -- > Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au > Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com > Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com > -- http://www.badstep.net/ "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious."