123 • The critics (2)
Selected reviews (some quite sniffy):
‘His rhythms and rhymes can be iffy.’
‘Some themes are perverse,
And others far worse.’
‘Deserves to be dunked in the Liffey.’
It pleases the workers in prose to pass comment on the workers in verse. Fortunately we do not have to pay them any heed. Anyway, the River Liffey is a literary character in its own right, as any Dubliner will tell you, at length.