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Review of Fredy Neptune
'Murray's verse novel is a gripping epic of alienation' - Independent on Sunday.
'...the sheer energy of Murray's poetry carries one along with it as the story broadens out
to encompass most of the tragedies and triumphs of the 20th century. A remarkable tour de
force.' - The Sunday Telegraph, 6th June 1999.
'Murray has crafted a verse-novel of awe-inspiring visual power whose rasping rhapsodic
language spills our to engulf the cruelty, beauty and wonder of the past century.' - The Sunday
Times, 6th June 1999.
'...a sprawling picaresque verse novel that embraces the 20th century. The result is a modern
divine comedy... A bold and profound piece of storytelling.' - The Times, 19th June 1999.
'[Murray] can abruptly produce, like an airy trill of nonsense, what reveals itself as a small
hard stone of meaning, as sleekly polished as anything by Graves or Auden.' - John
Bayley, The New York Review of Books.
'Few poets have Murray's gift for marrying the musical and the political.' - The New Yorker.
'Murray's generosity as a poet lies in his willingness... to find new ways of recording and
celebrating the indescribable.' Tim Dooley, TLS.
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'...the sheer energy of Murray's poetry carries one along with it as the story broadens out
to encompass most of the tragedies and triumphs of the 20th century. A remarkable tour de
force.' - The Sunday Telegraph, 6th June 1999.
'Murray has crafted a verse-novel of awe-inspiring visual power whose rasping rhapsodic
language spills our to engulf the cruelty, beauty and wonder of the past century.' - The Sunday
Times, 6th June 1999.
'...a sprawling picaresque verse novel that embraces the 20th century. The result is a modern
divine comedy... A bold and profound piece of storytelling.' - The Times, 19th June 1999.
'[Murray] can abruptly produce, like an airy trill of nonsense, what reveals itself as a small
hard stone of meaning, as sleekly polished as anything by Graves or Auden.' - John
Bayley, The New York Review of Books.
'Few poets have Murray's gift for marrying the musical and the political.' - The New Yorker.
'Murray's generosity as a poet lies in his willingness... to find new ways of recording and
celebrating the indescribable.' Tim Dooley, TLS.
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