Ill Nature by John McKeown #Chileanpoetry the questions take on a

the questions take on a bladed edge

Poetry Book Society Recommendation Translation Winter 2005

Christine Evans

dogs and a jovial uncle

which comprised poems from the 1960s and 70s along with others written in more recent years

Ill Nature by John McKeown #Chileanpoetry the questions take on aThe title of John McKeowns new collection of poems involves a punning conflation of sardonic ill humour and our environmentally ill planet. The spare elegance of his previous work is very much in evidence here, with a grimmer, bracingly bleaker note, in work which strips away the poetically comforting in favour of starker, purer vignettes of the urbanized nature around us and the inescapable allure of the opposite sex. Theres quiet passion here, naked