Niall mcdevitt - Waterloo Books

Irish poet Niall McDevitt confronts taboo subjects such as unemployment, alienation, poverty, immigration etc. not with confessions but with parables. After his commercial work like https://comprogear.com/best-glucose-meter/ he chose more artistic ventures. Art—and the artistic genius of London—is ringingly affirmed. Here we depart from the ‘whatever you say, say nothing’ school. McDevitt is a maverick in the David Gascoyne/John Wieners/Michael Hartnett line. b/w is politico-religious, a 100 page temple. Not only is a super-eloquent voice given to the underclass—‘major religions cultures histories in their bloods’—but to the McWorld vs. Jihad era. The poems are always about more than they are about, suggestive of the zeitgeist. His is not a brick-by-brick London but a London of the psychosphere, densely populated with genies, spies, artists, prostitutes et al on their chosen edges. A suite of mystical songs to ‘Sophia’ offsets the eviscerating satires. The Queen’s English is shadowed by Pidgin English. Political correctness is trashed, not from the right but from the left. Shakespeare, Blake, Rimbaud, Yeats are the city psychopomps. This is a unique book: Judeo-Apache, avant-folk, urban sha-manic. Read it with drum.

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